Sea Turtle Nesting Research Paper
Sea Turtle Nesting The number of sea turtle nests has been increasing over time in recent years on the coast of Florida. The difference in the number is up by thousands and is a positive change for the almost endangered sea turtles.
With the data collected from Palm Beach County it shows results causing record year numbers. In Palm Beach County, Loggerhead had a record year with a total of 33,829 nest.
Green Sea Turtles had 1,582 nests in Palm Beach County and state wide had about 5,393 nests. Since 1989, nest counts have ranged from 267 to 27,975, peaking in 2015.
In the state of Florida, Palm Beach County makes up twenty two percent of the state wide nesting with 5 percent of the statewide coastline. Also David Anderson states “1987 is …show more content…
The numbers goes down one year and up the next year. In comparison of the numbers over the past years it continues to rise. According to Kelly Martin an environmental analysis at Palm Beach County states “sea turtles nest every other year or every 2 years which explains part of the trend”.
According to Martin and Anderson trend of the numbers rising is unexplainable because it takes a sea turtle about 23 years to get to sexual maturation. So to fully have an answer on the trend they will need more years to find out.
Loggerhead turtles lay 105 eggs in a nest and takes 55 days to hatch. Leatherback turtles lay 60 to 80 eggs in a nest and takes 70 days to hatch. Green turtles lay 100 to 120 eggs in a nest and 55 days to hatch. But the chance of a turtle to make it to adulthood is 1 in 1000 or 1 in 5000 in all turtle species, so turtle nesting is important.
Sea Turtles are face with challenges of survival.
When hatchlings are out trying to make their way back to the sea face predators trying to eat them and light pollution. Light pollution is the placement of lights close to the beach area which might change the direction of the hatching because they usually follow the reflecting of the
With the data collected from Palm Beach County it shows results causing record year numbers. In Palm Beach County, Loggerhead had a record year with a total of 33,829 nest.
Green Sea Turtles had 1,582 nests in Palm Beach County and state wide had about 5,393 nests. Since 1989, nest counts have ranged from 267 to 27,975, peaking in 2015.
In the state of Florida, Palm Beach County makes up twenty two percent of the state wide nesting with 5 percent of the statewide coastline. Also David Anderson states “1987 is …show more content…
The numbers goes down one year and up the next year. In comparison of the numbers over the past years it continues to rise. According to Kelly Martin an environmental analysis at Palm Beach County states “sea turtles nest every other year or every 2 years which explains part of the trend”.
According to Martin and Anderson trend of the numbers rising is unexplainable because it takes a sea turtle about 23 years to get to sexual maturation. So to fully have an answer on the trend they will need more years to find out.
Loggerhead turtles lay 105 eggs in a nest and takes 55 days to hatch. Leatherback turtles lay 60 to 80 eggs in a nest and takes 70 days to hatch. Green turtles lay 100 to 120 eggs in a nest and 55 days to hatch. But the chance of a turtle to make it to adulthood is 1 in 1000 or 1 in 5000 in all turtle species, so turtle nesting is important.
Sea Turtles are face with challenges of survival.
When hatchlings are out trying to make their way back to the sea face predators trying to eat them and light pollution. Light pollution is the placement of lights close to the beach area which might change the direction of the hatching because they usually follow the reflecting of the