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Dominican Republic

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Dra. Liliana Betancourt F.
Programa EcoMar en República Dominicana
República Dominicana
Telf. 809-763-9905
lilianabetancourt@gmail.com

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Fleming, E. H. 2001. Swimming Against the Tide: Recent surveys of exploitation, trade and management of marine turtles in the Northern Caribbean. Traffic North America 161 pages.

León, Y.M. and J.M. Mota, 2003. A Caribbean juvenile hawksbill aggregation: Lessons from a six-year study. Proceedings of the 22th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium. U.S. Dep. Commer. NOAA Tech Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-415. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

León, Y.M. and K.A. Bjorndal, 2002. Selective feeding in the hawksbill turtle, an important predator in coral reef ecosystems (Marine Ecology Progress Series; 2002, v. 245, p. 249-258)

León, Y.M. and C.E. Diez, 2002. Diet selection by immature turtles at two sites in southwestern Dominican Republic (Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-477. 369 pp.; 2002, p. 71-72)

León, Y.M. and C.E. Diez, 2000. Ecology and population biology of hawksbill turtles at a Caribbean feeding ground (Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Sea Turtle Symposium. U.S. Dept. of Commerce. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-436, 293 pp.; 2000, p. 32-33)

León, Y.M. 2000. In-water CPUE estimates for hawksbills in the Dominican Republic. In: Bjorndal, K. A. & A. B. Bolten (eds). Proceedings of a Workshop on Assessing Abundance and Trends for In-water Sea Turtle Populations. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-445: p. 25-26.

León Y.M. 2000. Selective feeding in the hawksbill turtle: an important predator in coral reefs. MS Thesis. University of Florida, Gainesville

León, Y.M. and C.E. Diez, 1999. Population structure of hawksbill turtles on a foraging ground in the Dominican Republic (Chelonian Conservation and Biology; 1999, v. 3, no. 2, p. 230-236)

León, Y.M. and C.E. Diez, 1998. In-the-water studies for hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) at Parque Nacional Jaragua, Dominican Republic (Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Sea Turtle Symposium. U.S. Dep. Commer. NOAA Tech Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-415. 294 pp.; 1998, p. 217)

León, Y.M. and J. M. Mota, 1997. Aspects on the ecology and population structure of the hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic. Undergraduate Thesis, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo.

Tomás J., & León, Y.M. (2007) 2006 Annual Report Parque Nacional Aragua

Tomás J., & León, Y.M. (2008) 2007 Annual Report Parque Nacional Jaragua

The Dominican Republic Hawksbill Project
Grupo Jaragua, Inc.
Jaragua National Park
Ecologia de Republica Dominicana

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Tomás et al (2008) Nesting in the DR, poster to ISTS 28, Loreto_SMALL

Feliz et al (2008) Tortoiseshell in Santo Dominigo, poster to ISTS 38, Loreto_SMALL

Tomás et al (2008) Egg take and hatcheries, poster to ISTS 28, Loreto_SMALL

Tomás  et al (2007) Nesting in the DR, poster to XIV Congreso Europeo de Herpetología_SMALL

Loggerhead N,I
Green N, F
Leatherback N
Hawksbill N, F
Kemp’s Ridley A
Olive Ridley A
N=Nesting
F=Foraging
IN=Infrequent Nesting
IF=Infrequent Foraging
I=Infrequent (further data unavailable)
A=Absent

Dow et al 2007b

Dominican Republic National Nesting Beach Atlas

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