Publications – Costa Project

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Bowlby HD, Druon j, Lopez J, Juan-Jordá M, Carreón-Zapiain M, Vandeperre F, et al. 2024. Global habitat predictions to inform spatiotemporal fisheries management: Initial steps within the framework. Marine Policy 164: 106155. ⇒
Candela T, Wyneken J, Leijen P, Gaspar P, Vandeperre F, et al. 2024. Novel microsatellite tags hold promise for illuminating the lost years in four sea turtle species. Animals 14(16): 903. ⇒
Lima F, Parra H, Alves RB, Santos MR, Bjorndal KA, Bolten AB, Vandeperre F. 2023. Effects of gear modifications in a North Atlantic pelagic longline fishery: A multiyear study. PLOS ONE 18(10): e0292727. ⇒
Parra H, Pham CK, Machete M, Santos, MR, Bjorndal, KA, Vandeperre F. 2023. The Portuguese industrial pelagic longline fishery in the Northeast Atlantic: Catch composition, spatio-temporal dynamics of fishing effort, and target species catch rates. Fisheries Research 264. ⇒
Parra H, Machete M, Santos, MR, Bjorndal, KA, Vandeperre F. 2023. Incidental capture of sea turtles in the Northeast Atlantic Portuguese pelagic longline fishery. Fisheries Research 263. ⇒
Barcelos L, Vandeperre F, Parra H, Barreiros J. 2023. Sea turtle (Reptilia, Testudines) diversity and occurrence in the Azores Archipelago. Biodiversity Data Journal 11. ⇒
Mazaris et al. 2023. Priorities for Mediterranean marine turtle conservation and management in the face of climate change. Journal of Environmental Management 339. ⇒
Rodríguez Y, Vandeperre F, Santos MR, Herrera L, Parra H, Deshpande A, et al. 2022. Litter ingestion and entanglement in green turtles: An analysis of two decades of stranding events in the NE Atlantic. Environmental Pollution 298. ⇒
Girard et al. 2022. Towards a common approach for assessing the conservation status of marine turtle species within the european marine strategy framework directive. Frontiers in Marine Science 9. ⇒
Darmon et al. 2022. Drivers of litter ingestion by sea turtles: Three decades of empirical data collected in Atlantic Europa and the Mediterranean. Marine Pollution Bulletin 185. ⇒
Druon et al. 2022. Global-scale environmental niche and habitat of blue shark (Prionace glauca) by size and sex: A pivotal step to improving stock management. Frontiers in Marine Science 9. ⇒
Afonso P, Fontes J, Giacomello E, Magalhães MC, Martins HR, Morato T, Neves V, Prieto R, Santos RS, Silva MA, Vandeperre F. 2020 The Azores: A mid-Atlantic hotspot for marine megafauna research and conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:826. ⇒
Vandeperre F, Parra H, Pham CK, Machete M, Santos MA, Bjorndal KA, Bolten AB. 2019 Relative abundance of oceanic juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in relation to nest production at source rookeries: implications for recruitment dynamics. Scientific Reports 9:13019. ⇒
Bjorndal KA, Simião S, Santos MA, Ferreira RL, Martins HR, Vandeperre F, Parra H, Sasso CR, James MC, Rodgerson A, Bolten AB. 2019 Connectivity between Loggerhead developmental habitats in the Azores and in or near Canadian waters. Marine Turtle Newsletter 157: 16-18. ⇒
Chambault P, Baudena A, Bjorndal KA, Santos MA, Bolten AB, Vandeperre F. 2019 Swirling in the ocean: Immature loggerhead turtles seasonally target old anticyclonic eddies at the fringe of the North Atlantic gyre. Progress in Oceanography 175. ⇒
Mattidi et al. 2019 Data Collection on Marine Litter Ingestion in Sea Turtles and Thresholds for Good Environmental Status. Journal of Visualized Experiments e59466. ⇒
Chambault P. Vandeperre F, Machete M, Lagoa JC, Pham CK. 2018 Distribution and composition of floating macro litter off the Azores archipelago and Madeira (NE Atlantic) using opportunistic surveys. Marine Environmental Research 141: 225-232. ⇒
Fauconnet L, Pham CK, Canha A, Afonso P, Diogo H, Machete M, Silva HM, Vandeperre F, Morato T. 2018 An overview of fisheries discards in the Azores. Fisheries Research 209: 203-241. ⇒
Helen RM, Bjorndal KA, Ferreira RL, Parra H, Pham CK, Rodríguez Y, Santos MR, Vandeperre F, Bolten AB. 2018 Sea turtles: University of Florida – University of the Azores connection 1984 – present. A review. Arquipélago Life and Marine Sciences 35: 85-94.
Macaronesian Roof Report. 2018 – Mistic Seas II. ⇒
Stacy NI, Bjorndal KA, Perrault JR, Martins HR, Bolten AB. 2018 Blood analytes of oceanic-juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from Azorean waters: reference intervals, size-relevant correlations and comparisons to neritic loggerheads from western Atlantic coastal waters. Conservation Physiology 6(1), coy006. ⇒
Pham CK, Rodríguez Y, Dauphin A, Carriço R, Frias J, Vandeperre F, Otero V, Santos MR, Martins HR, Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA. 2017 Plastic ingestion in oceanic-stage loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) off the North-Atlantic subtropical gyre. Marine Pollution Bulletin 121: 222-229. ⇒
Damaso C, Machete M, Santos MA, Parra H, Cruz MJ, Pham CK, Vandeperre F. 2016. Azores Fisheries Observer Program and COSTA Project: an example of cooperation to achieve sea turtle conservation objectives. In: Kennelly SJ (Ed.) Proceedings of the 8th International Fisheries Observer and Monitoring Conference, 349 pages, San Diego, USA (ISBN: 978-0-9924930-3-5), pp. 288 – 291. ⇒
Avens L, Goshe LR, Coggins L, Snover ML, Pajuelo M, Bjorndal KA, Bolten AB. 2015 Age and size at maturation and adult stage duration for loggerhead sea turtles in the western North Atlantic. Marine Biology 162: 1749–1767. ⇒
López-Castro MC, Bjorndal KA, Kamenov GD, Bolten AB. 2014. Identifying oceanic foraginggrounds of sea turtles in the Atlantic using lead isotopes. Marine Biology 161: 2269–2278. ⇒
Vandeperre F, Aires-da-Silva A, Santos M, Ferreira R, Bolten AB, Santos RS, Afonso P. 2014 Demography and ecology of blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the central North Atlantic. Fisheries Research 153: 89–102. ⇒
Pfaller JB, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Giffoni B, Ishihara T, Mangel JC, Peckham SH, Bjorndal KA, Baeza JA. 2014. Social monogamy in the crab Planes major, a facultative symbiont of loggerhead seaturtles. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 461: 124–132. ⇒
Avens L, Goshe LR, Pajuelo M, Bjorndal KA, MacDonald BD, Lemons GE, Bolten AB, Seminoff JA. 2013. Complementary skeletochronology and stable isotope analyses offer new insight into juvenile loggerhead sea turtle oceanic stage duration and growth dynamics. Marine Ecology Progress Series 491: 235–251. ⇒
López-Castro MC, Bjorndal KA, Kamenov GD, Zenil-Ferguson R, Bolten AB. 2013. Sea turtle population structure and connections between oceanic and neritic foraging areas in the Atlantic revealed through trace elements. Marine Ecology Progress Series 490: 233–246. ⇒
Ferreira R, Martins HR, Bolten AB, Erzini K. 2011. Turtle troubles. Global Marine Environment 14: 22-23.
Ferreira RL, Martins HR, Bolten AB, Santos MA, Erzini K. 2010. Influence of environmental and fishery parameters on loggerhead sea turtle bycatch in the longline fishery in the Azores Archipelago and implications for conservation. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91(8): 1697–1705. ⇒
Pajuelo M, Bjorndal KA, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Seminoff JA, Mangel JC, Bolten AB. 2010. Stable isotope variation in loggerhead turtles reveals Pacific-Atlantic oceanographic differences. MarineEcology Progress Series 417: 277-285. ⇒
Frick MG, Williams KL, Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 2009. Foraging ecology of oceanic-stage loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta), opportunistic carnivores. Endangered Species Research 9: 91-97. ⇒
Sasso CR, Epperly SP. 2007 Survival of pelagic juvenile Loggerhead turtles in the open ocean. Journal of Wildlife Management 71(6): 1830-1835. ⇒
Santos MA, Bolten AB, Martins HR, Riewald B, Bjorndal KA. 2007 Air-breathing visitors to seamounts: sea turtles. In: Seamounts: Ecology Fisheries and Conservation (eds TJ Pitcher, T Morato, PLB Hart, MR Clark, A Haggan, R Santos). pp. 239-243. University of Azores: Blackwell publishing.
Okuyama T, Bolker BM. 2005. Combining genetic and ecological data to estimate sea turtle origins. Ecological Applications 15(1): 315-325. ⇒
Frick MG, Williams KL, Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 2004. Diet and fecundity of Columbus crabs Planes minutus associated with oceanic-stage loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta and inanimate flotsam. Journal of Crustacean Biology 24: 350-355. ⇒
Bolten AB, Martins HR, Isidro E, Santos M, Ferreira R, Bettencourt E, Giga E, Cruz A, Bjorndal KA. 2004 Experiment to evaluate gear modification on rates of sea turtle bycatch in the swordfish longline fishery in the Azores – Phase 1 and Phase 2. Pages 139-153 in K.J. Long and B.A. Schroeder (editors), Proceedings of the International Technical Expert Workshop on Marine Turtle Bycatch in Longline Fisheries, Seattle, Washington, 11-13 February 2003. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-26.
Frick MG, Ross A, Williams KL, Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 2003. Epibiotic associates of oceanic-stage loggerhead turtles from the southeastern North Atlantic. Marine Turtle Newsletter 101: 18-20. ⇒
Bjorndal KA, Bolten AB, Dellinger T, Delgado C, Martins HR. 2003 Compensatory Growth in Oceanic Loggerhead Sea Turtles: Response to a Stochastic Environment. Ecology 84: 1237–1249. ⇒
Bjorndal KA, Bolten AB, Martins HR. 2003. Estimates of survival probabilities for oceanic-stage loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the North Atlantic. Fisheries Bulletin 101: 732–736. ⇒
Bolker B, Okuyama T, Bjorndal K, Bolten A. 2003. Sea turtle stock estimation using genetic markers: accounting for sampling error of rare genotypes. Ecological Applications 13: 763-775. ⇒
Bolten AB. 2003. Variation in sea turtle life history patterns: neritic vs. oceanic developmental stages. In The Biology of Sea Turtles, vol. II (eds PL Lutz, JA Musick, J Wyneken). pp. 243–257. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ⇒
Bolten AB. 2003. Active swimmers – passive drifters: the oceanic juvenile stage of loggerheads in the Atlantic system. In Loggerhead Sea Turtles (eds AB Bolten, BE Witherington). pp. 63–78. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. ⇒
Ferreira RL, Martins HR, da Silva AA, Bolten AB. 2001 Impact of swordfish fisheries on sea turtles in the Azores. Arquipélago Life Marine Sciences 18A: 75–79.
Martins HR, Bolten AB, Ferreira RL. 2001. Impact of longline fisheries on sea turtles in the archipelago of the Azores. Pages 76-77 in Ciccione S, Ross D, Le Gall J, (Ed.). Advance in knowledge and conservation of sea turtles in south-west Indian Ocean. Etudes et Colloques du Editions du Centre d’Etude et de Découverte des Tortues Marine de La Réunion (CEDTM).
Riewald B, Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 2001. Effects of longline hooking on dive behaviour and movement patterns of oceanic stage juvenile loggerheads (Caretta caretta). Poster 21st Annual Symposium on Sea Turtles Biology and Conservation. Philadelphia. February 2001.
Bjorndal KA, Bolten AB, Martins HR. 2000. Somatic growth model of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta: duration of pelagic stage. Marine Ecology Progress Series 202: 265–272. ⇒
Bolten AB, Martins HR, Bjorndal KA. (Eds) 2000. Proceedings of a workshop to design an experiment to determine the effects of longline gear modification on sea turtles bycatch rates. 2-4 September 1998. Horta, Azores, Portugal. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum. NMFS-OPR-19, 50 pp.
Prieto R, Ferreira R, Silva A. 2000. Turtle bycatch in the longline fisheries of the Azores. Pp. 22-28 in: Bolten AB, Martins HR, Bjorndal KA (Eds.). Workshop to design na experimente to determine the effects of longline gear modification on sea turtles bycatch rates. 2-4 September 1998. Horta, Azores, Portugal. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum. NMFS-OPR-19, 50 pp.
Riewald B, Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 1999 Movement and habitat use of pelagic loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta. 34th European Marine Biology Symposium. Ponta Delgada, 13-17 September 1999. Poster. Program and Abstracts: 103.
Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR, Dellinger T, Biscoito MJ, Encalada SE, Bowen BW. 1998. Transatlantic Developmental Migrations of Loggerhead Sea Turtles Demonstrated by mtDNA Sequence Analysis. Ecological Applications 8: 1–7. ⇒
Bjorndal KA. 1997. Foraging ecology and nutrition of sea turtles. Pp. 199-231 in: Lutz PL & Musick JA (Eds). The biology of Sea Turtles Vol. I. CRS Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 446 pp.
Bjorndal KA (Ed.) 1995. Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Revised edition. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington D.C. USA 615 pp.
Bowen BW. 1995. Molecular genetic studies of marine turtles. Pp. 585-587 in: Bjorndal KA (Ed.) Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Revised edition. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington D.C USA 615pp.
Bowen BW. 1995. Tracking marine turtles with genetic markers: voyagers of the ancient mariners. BioScience 45: 528-534.
Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 1995. Life history of the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta (Reptilia: Cheloniidae), in the Atlantic. In A Domingo Abreu and M Biscoito (eds.), Proceedings of the First Symposium Fauna and Flora of Atlantic Islands. Bol. Museu Municipal do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, Sup. no. 4: 115-122.
Bolten AB, Balazs GH. 1995. Biology of the early pelagic stage–the “lost year.” Pages 575-581 inK.A. Bjorndal (editor), Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles, revised edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Bjorndal KA, Bolten AB, Gordon J, Camiñas JA. 1994. Caretta caretta (loggerhead) growth and pelagic movement. Herpetological Review 25: 23-24.
Bolten AB, Bjorndal KA, Martins HR. 1994. Life history model for the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) population in the Atlantic: Potential impacts of longline fishery. Pp. 48-54 in: Balazs GH & Pooley SG (Eds.). Research Plan to Assess Marine Turtle Hooking Mortality: Result of an Expert Workshop Held in Honolulu, Hawaii, November 16-18, 1992. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-201.
Bolten AB, Martins HR, Bjorndal KA, Gordon J. 1993. Size distribution of pelagic-stage loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the waters around the Azores and Madeira. Arquipélago Life Marine Sciences 2: 49–54.
Bolten AB, Martins HR, Bjorndal KA, Cocco M, Gerosa G. 1992. Caretta caretta (loggerhead) pelagic movement and growth. Herpetological Review 23: 116.
Bolten AB, Santana JC, Bjorndal KA. 1992. Transatlantic crossing by a loggerhead turtle. Marine Turtle Newsletter 59: 7-8.
Bolten AB, Martins HR. 1990. Kemp’s ridley captured in the Azores. Marine Turtle Newsletter 48:23.
Bolten AB, Martins HR, Natali ML, Thomé JC, Marcovaldi MA. 1990. Loggerhead released in Brazil recaptured in Azores. Marine Turtle Newsletter 48: 24-25.
Eckert SA, Martins HR. 1989. Transantlantic travel by juvenile loggerhead turtle. Marine Turtle Newsletter 45: 15.
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Carr AF. 1982. Notes on the behavioural ecology of sea turtles. Pp. 19-26 in: Bjorndal KA (Ed.) Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington D.C., USA. 583 pp.
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