Conference paper
Determination of the factors that might have influenced the rehabilitation of Caretta caretta in the Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center between 2001-2016
Camilla Roldi
; Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Punta Sottile Presso, 92031, Lampedusa e Linosa AG, Italy
Daniela Freggi
; Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Punta Sottile Presso, 92031, Lampedusa e Linosa AG, Italy
Abstract
The Lampedusa Sea Turtle Rescue Center started its activity in 1990, and in this paper we analyze data from 2812 loggerhead turtlesrescued by 2016. Here we analyse which factors might have affected the rehabilitation success of the injured sea turtles hosted in our Center. We underline the following factors: type of clinical case, animal’s health condition and the presence of a qualified surgeon.
For the first factor we estimated the percentage of survival animals with the various clinical cases (n=928) and for the second factor we estimated the outcome of therapies (recovery achieved/death) and health condition (good health condition/depressed/comatose) using the Fisher exact test which confirmed how health condition can significantly affect sea turtle rehabilitation success. For the last factor, we divided the study period into five subperiods (2001-2003, 2004-2006, 2007-2009, 2010-2012, 2013-2016) based on the evolution of surgical techniques and the presence of an expert surgeon with direct experience of sea turtle surgery; with post hoc test of univariate ANOVA investigation, we confirm significantly the value of the experience of professionals involved.Bycatch and health condition appear to significantly influence rehab success and the presence of a competent surgeon is radically responsible for an increase in the survival of loggerhead turtles, as expected.
Keywords
marine turtles; rehabilitation success; clinical cases; survival; Lampedusa
Hrčak ID:
249246
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Publication date:
31.12.2020.
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