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AUTHOR
G. A. De Lucia
Turtles on the trash track: loggerhead turtles exposed to floating plastic in the Mediterranean Sea
Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) spend most of their life in large marine areas occupying a variety of habitats where they are exposed to different types of threats. Among these, marine litter is known to pose a risk of entanglement or ingestion. Areas of risk exposure can be identified where the species overlap with litter accumulations, but gathering data on this highly mobile species and marine litter, especially in high sea areas, is challenging. Here we analysed five years of sea turtle and marine litter data collected by a network of research bodies along fixed trans-border transects in the Mediterranean Sea. Ferries were used as observation platforms to gather systematic data on …
Appendix B. Description of the field methods of the 40 studies used in the meta-analysis.
Description of the field methods of the 40 studies used in the meta-analysis.
Appendix A. Location, design, and other characteristics of the European marine reserves included in the meta-analysis.
Location, design, and other characteristics of the European marine reserves included in the meta-analysis.
Appendix C. List of the species recorded from the studies and their commercial and ecological categories.
List of the species recorded from the studies and their commercial and ecological categories.
Appendix D. Pairwise Pearson correlation coefficients between the commercial and ecological traits considered in the meta-analysis.
Pairwise Pearson correlation coefficients between the commercial and ecological traits considered in the meta-analysis.
Appendix E. Number of species in each combination of commercial category and ecological trait.
Number of species in each combination of commercial category and ecological trait.