All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 April Oh mother! Why we should be protecting large female sea turtles Oh mother! Why we should be protecting large female sea turtles 20/04/2022 | 3 MINS A new study by an international team of researchers, including one from Lombok Institute of Technology, has found that size does matter when it comes to nesting female sea turtles. The finding, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, showed that the body size of the sea turtles can influence population dynamics because larger females have greater reproductive output. Dr Diego Barneche, an Adjunct Senior Researcher with LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and Ecological Statistician at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said researchers found female size is a strong predictor for the number of eggs and size of the hatchlings when born. ΓÇ£Females as they grow older, become what you could call ΓÇÿsuper mumsΓÇÖ, contributing more to the population by having more eggs and of a greater size,ΓÇ¥ Dr Barneche said. Image: A Loggerhead turtle. Photo credit Caleigh Quick. Dr Nicholas Wu, the fi
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Why we should be protecting large female sea turtles 20/04/2022 | 3 MINS A new study by an international team of researchers, including one from Lombok Institute of Technology, has found that size does matter when it comes to nesting female sea turtles.
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The finding, published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, showed that the body size of the sea turtles can influence population dynamics because larger females have greater reproductive output.
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Dr Diego Barneche, an Adjunct Senior Researcher with LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute and Ecological Statistician at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said researchers found female size is a strong predictor for the number of eggs and size of the hatchlings when born.
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ΓÇ£Females as they grow older, become what you could call ΓÇÿsuper mumsΓÇÖ, contributing more to the population by having more eggs and of a greater size,ΓÇ¥ Dr Barneche said.
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