Stochastic simulation modelling of southern Great Barrier Reef green turtle population dynamics

2002 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milani Chaloupka
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Stochastic Simulation ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Simulation Modelling ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Turtle Population

scholarly journals Queensland Protects Sea Turtles

Oryx ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-24
Author(s):  
H. Robert Bustard
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Population Studies ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
History Of ◽  
Turtle Population ◽  
Protection Order ◽  
Full Protection

In 1968 the Queensland Government gave five species of turtle full protection along the State’s entire 3200-mile-long coast and the whole of the Great Barrier Reef. In this article Dr Bustard tells the history of turtle protection in Queensland and describes the two turtle population studies he has been running since 1964 which, with other studies, led to the protection order.

Green turtle somatic growth dynamics in a spatially disjunct Great Barrier Reef metapopulation

Coral Reefs ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milani Chaloupka ◽  
Colin Limpus ◽  
Jeffrey Miller
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Somatic Growth ◽  
Growth Dynamics ◽  
Barrier Reef

The green turtle, Chelonia mydas, in Queensland: breeding males in the southern Great Barrier Reef

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 513 ◽  
Author(s):  
CJ Limpus
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Carapace Length ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Green Turtles ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
Breeding Seasons ◽  
Slow Growing

Breeding male green turtles, Chelonia mydas, at any one courtship area in the southern Great Barrier Reef mate with females that will nest on rookeries spread throughout the region. In comparison with the breeding females from the same breeding unit, the males are smaller in curved carapace length, and a higher proportion of males remigrate for additional breeding seasons at 1-2-year intervals. Like the adult females, adult males are slow-growing, averaging 0.046 cm year-1. Each male appears to display a fidelity to a particular courtship area, to which it returns in successive breeding migrations. At the conclusion of the courtship period, the males disperse to widely scattered feeding areas.

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