Browsing by Author "Williams, James"

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    • Identification of Important Sea Turtle Areas (ITAs) for hawksbill turtles in the Arabian Region 

      Pilcher, Nicolas J.; Antonopoulou, Marina; Perry, Lisa; Abdel-Moati, Mohamed A.; Al Abdessalaam, Thabit Zahran; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)
      We present the first data on hawksbill turtle post-nesting migrations and behaviour in the Arabian region. Tracks from 90 post-nesting turtles (65 in the Gulf and 25 from Oman) revealed that hawksbills in the Arabian region ...

    • Population structure of marine turtles in coastal waters of Qatar 

      Pilcher, Nicolas J.; Al-Maslamani, Ibrahim; Williams, James; Gasang, Reyniel; Chikhi, Ahmed ( Inter-Research Science Publishing , 2015 , Article)
      Knowledge of the interrelationships between habitats and life-stage development in marine turtles requires an understanding of recruitment, size and age at maturity, sex ratios, growth and sexual development rates, ...

    • Short-term behavioural responses to thermal stress by hawksbill turtles in the Arabian region 

      Pilcher, Nicolas J.; Perry, Lisa; Antonopoulou, Marina; Abdel-Moati, Mohamed A.; Al Abdessalaam, Thabit Zahran; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)
      We present a previously unrecorded short-term behavioural response by hawksbill sea turtles to elevated sea surface temperatures in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Surface waters typically exceed 30°C for sustained periods during ...