Acknowledgments: EN-M gratefully acknowledges travel support from Disney Animal Kingdom, Western ... more Acknowledgments: EN-M gratefully acknowledges travel support from Disney Animal Kingdom, Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council, US National Marine Fisheries Service, and US Fish and Wildlife Service, provided through the Symposium Travel Committee. Order: 233 Abstract ID: 1731 Type: Poster Subject: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH TEMPERATURE AND TWO HURRICANES ON THE SUCCESS OF LATE SEASON LOGGERHEAD NESTS IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, IN 2005 Stefanie Ouellette and Curtis Burney Nova Southeastern Univerisity Oceanographic Center, Dania Beach, Florida, USA The success of loggerhead nests, defined as the percentage of the eggs per nest resulting in live released hatchlings, declined to unusually low levels during the latter part of the 2005 season. The mean successes were 81.1, 61.1, 32.8 and 13.4 percent for nests deposited in May, June, July and August, respectively. Many eggs from the August nests appeared to be unusually dried. There was a sig...
Acknowledgments: EN-M gratefully acknowledges travel support from Disney Animal Kingdom, Western ... more Acknowledgments: EN-M gratefully acknowledges travel support from Disney Animal Kingdom, Western Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Council, US National Marine Fisheries Service, and US Fish and Wildlife Service, provided through the Symposium Travel Committee. Order: 233 Abstract ID: 1731 Type: Poster Subject: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH TEMPERATURE AND TWO HURRICANES ON THE SUCCESS OF LATE SEASON LOGGERHEAD NESTS IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, IN 2005 Stefanie Ouellette and Curtis Burney Nova Southeastern Univerisity Oceanographic Center, Dania Beach, Florida, USA The success of loggerhead nests, defined as the percentage of the eggs per nest resulting in live released hatchlings, declined to unusually low levels during the latter part of the 2005 season. The mean successes were 81.1, 61.1, 32.8 and 13.4 percent for nests deposited in May, June, July and August, respectively. Many eggs from the August nests appeared to be unusually dried. There was a sig...
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