Marine Turtles Nesting Season: a tool to analyze and compare marine turtles nesting season
by Marc Girondot
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Delcroix, E., S. Bédel, G. Santelli, and M. Girondot. 2013. Monitoring design for quantification of marine turtle nesting with limited human effort: a test case in the Guadeloupe Archipelago. Oryx 48:95-105.
Girondot, M. 2010. Editorial: The zero counts. Marine Turtle Newsletter, 129, 5-6.
Hassine, S. B., Jribi, I., Bradai, M. N., Bouain, A. & Girondot, M. 2011. Origin in variability of nesting period of the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Kuriat islands (Tunisia). Marine Turtle Newsletter. 131:48-50.
Girondot, M. 2010. Estimating density of animals during migratory waves: application to marine turtles at nesting site. 12: 85-105.
Girondot, M., P. Rivalan, R. Wongsopawiro, J.-P. Briane, V. Hulin, S. Caut, E. Guirlet, and M. H. Godfrey. 2006. Phenology of marine turtle nesting revealed by a statistical model of the nesting season. BMC Ecology 6:11.
Godgenger, M.-C., N. Bréheret, G. Bal, K. N’Damité, A. Girard, and M. Girondot. 2009. Nesting estimation and analysis of threats for Critically Endangered leatherback Dermochelys coriacea and Endangered olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea marine turtles nesting in Congo. Oryx 43:556-563.
This method has been adapted to be used within R software in the package «phenology»
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