The first record of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting on the northernmost Aegean coast, Turkey

Year 2020, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 198 - 203, 27.11.2020

Şükran Yalçın Özdilek Selma Kırbeci Sevil Yalçın Aytaç Altın Ahmet Uzatıcı Murat Tosunoğlu Adnan Ayaz Alkan Öztekin Bektaş Sönmez

https://doi.org/10.28978/nesciences.833003

Cited By: 2

Abstract

This study presents the first documented evidence of a loggerhead turtle nest on the northernmost Aegean coast of Turkey which was found on the Gelibolu Peninsula of Çanakkale province, Turkey. The nest contains a total of 74 eggs; 50 of them produced hatchlings and 46 of those hatchlings reached to the sea safely. This record supports the idea that sea turtles search alternative nesting beaches as a result of climate change.

Keywords

Caretta caretta, North Aegean Sea, Çanakkale, Gelibolu Peninsula, Sporadic nesting site

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