4 6. Conclusions ..................................................................................................................65 7. Supplementary Information ...........................................................................................65 Chapitre 2. A single Management Unit but specific conservation strategies between two major breeding grounds of the critically endangered loggerhead turtle in New Caledonia ..............67 1. Abstract ........................................................................................................................70 2. Introduction ...................................................................................................................70 3. Materials and methods..................................................................................................72 3.1 Study area...............................................................................................................72 3.2 Data acquisition.......................................................................................................74 3.2.1 Satellite telemetry ..........................................................................................74 3.2.2 Flipper tag recoveries and CMR.....................................................................76 3.2.3 Molecular analyses ........................................................................................77 4. Results..........................................................................................................................78 4.1 Intra-annual female connectivity ..............................................................................78 4.2 Inter-annual female connectivity ..............................................................................78 4.3 Inter-generational connectivity .................................................................................79 5. Discussion ....................................................................................................................81 6. Supplementary information ...........................................................................................84 Chapitre 3. Coral-islets as cooler nesting habitat and management priority to mitigate sea turtle population feminization. ........................................................................................................88 1. Abstract ........................................................................................................................91 2. Introduction ...................................................................................................................91 3. Materials & methods .....................................................................................................93 3.1 Study area...............................................................................................................93 3.1.1 The ‘Roche Percée’ nesting area (RP) ...........................................................93 3.1.2 The ‘Grand Lagon Sud’ nesting area (GLS) ...................................................94 3.2 Temperature loggers ...............................................................................................95 3.3 Variability across nesting areas ...............................................................................96 3.4 Sex ratio assessments ............................................................................................96
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