We classify two different sea turtle species belong to Mediterranean region, namely loggerhead and green sea turtles. The first method we experiment is the Bag of Feature (BoF) method that is integrated with Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification. The BoF method mainly extracts color, ...
There are seven living species of sea turtles (the first name listed is based on their physical characteristics and this common name varies in different counties). The name in parenthesis refers to their scientific taxonomy of species and genus: Hawksbill(Eretmochelys imbricata) The beak-like mouth...
Explore the life of a sea turtle from the time it hatches to maturity, learn about its habitat and the threats of pollution and other human-made threats that impact the future survival of this species. Related to this QuestionIs the leatherback sea turtle a keystone species? Are sea turtles ...
Classification/taxonomy This is the scientific classification of sea turtles according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS): Kingdom: Animalia Subkingdom: Bilateria Infrakingdom: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclass: Tetrapoda Class: ...
Sea turtle-shark interactions: injury classification criteriaNorem, A DCarthy, R R
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1. 1. Electrophoresis and immunoelectrophoresis reveal that Caretta, Eretmochelys and Lepidochelys share considerably similar blood serum proteins. 2. 2. Proteins from Chelonia are more like those of Caretta and Lepidochelys than like Eretmochelys. 3. 3. Dermochelys proteins are most distinct among ...
Evaluating the impacts of coastal squeeze on sea turtle nesting. Ocean. Coast. Manag. 2009, 52, 139–145. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Welsh, D.T. It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it: The role of marine benthic macrofauna in organic matter turnover and nutrient recycling to ...
cetaceans; PCR-RFLP; Mediterranean Sea; stranded cetacean; adrift cetacean; molecular taxonomy; cetacean molecular identification1. Introduction Cetaceans are a fundamental component of marine biodiversity; as apex predators, they are direct indexes of environmental status. According to Perrin [1], eighty...