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Seaturtle.org

The Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES)

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

The Marine Turtle Specialist Group

The St. Kitts Heritage Society

The St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network

The World Wildlife Fund

WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Barbados

Horrocks, J.A. (1992) WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for Barbados. in CEP Technical Report No. 12 (K.L. Eckert, Ed.) Kingston: UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme.

Bass, A.L., Good, D.A., Bjorndal, K.A., Richardson, J.I., Hillis, Z.-M., Horrocks, J.A., and Bowen, B.W. (1996) Testing models of female reproductive migratory behaviour and population structure in the Caribbean hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, with mtDNA sequences. Molecular Ecology 5: 321-328.

Horrocks, J.A., Vermeer, L.A., Krueger, B., Coyne, M., Schroeder, B.A., and Balazs, G.H. (2001) Migration Routes and Destination Characteristics of Post-Nesting Hawksbill Turtles Satellite-Tracked from Barbados, West Indies. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(1): 107-114.

Eckert, K.L. and J.A. Horrocks (Ed.) (2002) Proceedings of the "Sea Turtles and Beachfront Lighting:An Interactive Workshop for Industry Professionals and Policy-Makers in Barbados", 13 October 2000. Sponsored by the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDCAST), the Barbados Sea Turtle Project, and the Tourism Development Corporation of Barbados. WIDECAST Technical Report 1. v+44 pp

Horrocks, J.A. (2002) Reducing Threats on Foraging Grounds, p.121-126. in: K.L. Eckert, and F.A. Abreu Grobois (Editors), Proceedings of the Regional Meeting: “Marine Turtle Conservation in the Wider Caribbean Region: A Dialogue for Effective Regional Management”, Santo Domingo, 16-18 November 1999. WIDECAST, IUCN-MTSG, WWF and UNEP-CEP, 154 pp.

Luke, K., Horrocks, J.A., LeRoux, R.A., and Dutton, P.H. (2003) Origins of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) feeding aggregations around Barbados. Marine Biology 144(4): 799-805.

Krueger, B., Horrocks, J.A., Beggs, J.A. (2003) International Movements of Adult Female and Juvenile Hawksbill Turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, from Barbados, West Indies. p. 230 in: N.J. Pilcher (Editor), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-536

Beggs, J.A., Horrocks, J.A. and Kruger, B. (2003) Nesting of leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, in Barbados, West Indies. p. 169 in: N.J. Pilcher (Editor), Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-536.

Krueger, B.H. Beggs, J. A. and Horrocks, J.A. (2004) Distribution and abundance of hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) on the western bank reef of Barbados, West Indies. 24th Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. San Jose, Costa Rica, February. 

Abreu-Grobois, F.A., Horrocks, J.A., Formia, A., Dutton, P.H., LeRoux, R.A., Vélez-Zuazo, X., Soares, L., and Meylan, P. (2006) New mtDNA dloop primers which work for a variety of marine turtle species may increase the resolution capacity of mixed stock analyses. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Conservation and Biology, 2-8 April, 2006.

Abreu-Grobois, F.A., Horrocks, J.A., Krueger, B., Formia, A., Browne, D., and Beggs, J. (2006) Hawksbill turtles foraging around Barbados, West Indies, originate from rookeries both within and outside of the wider Caribbean. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Conservation and Biology, 2-8 April, 2006.

Browne, D.C., Abreu-Grobois, F.A., King, R., Lloyd, C., Isaac, C.A. and Horrocks, J.A. (2007) Population Structure of Hawksbill Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) at Rookeries and Foraging Areas in Grenada, West Indies, Based on Mitochondrial DNA sequences. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Conservation and Biology, 22-28 February, 2007.

Beggs, J.A., Horrocks, J.A., and Krueger, B.H. (2007) Increase in hawksbill sea turtle Eretmochelys imbricata nesting in Barbados, West Indies. Endangered Species Research 3: 159-168.

Grazette, S., Horrocks, J.A., Phillip, P.E. and Isaac, C.J. (2007) An assessment of the marine turtle fishery in Grenada, West Indies. Oryx 41: 330-336.

Leighton, P.A., Horrocks, J.A., Krueger, B.H., Beggs, J.A. and Kramer, D.L. (2008) Predicting species interactions from edge responses: mongoose predation on hawksbill sea turtle nests in fragmented beach habitat. Proceedings: Biological Sciences 2008.

Useful for Student Research
Gulko, D. and Eckert, K.L. (2003) Sea Turtles: An Ecological Guide. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing.

Lutz, P.L. and Musick, J.A. (Eds.) (1997) The Biology of Sea Turtles. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Lutz, P.L., Musick, J.A., and Wyneken, J. (Eds.) (2003) The Biology of Sea Turtles Volume II. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Spotila, J.R. (2004) Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to their Biology, Behaviour, and Conservation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Genetics
Bass, A.L. (1996) Application of isolation by distance models to hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting sites in the Caribbean. Pp 41-46 in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sea Turtle Conservation Genetics. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-396 (B.W. Bowen and W.N. Witzell, Ed.) Miami, FL: U.S. Department of Commerce.

Bowen, B.W., Bass, A.L., Garcia-Rodriguez, A., Diez, C.E., van Dam, R., Bolten, A.B., Bjorndal, K.A., Miyamoto, M.M., and Ferl, R.J. (1996) Origin of hawksbill turtles in a Caribbean feeding area as indicated by genetic markers. Ecological Applications 6(2): 566-572.

Broderick, A.C. and Moritz, C. (1996) Hawksbill breeding and foraging populations in the Indo-Pacific region. Pp 119-128 in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sea Turtle Conservation Genetics, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-396 (B.W. Bowen and W.N. Witzell, Ed.) Miami, FL: U.S. Department of Commerce.

Díaz-Fernández, R., Okayama, T., Uchiyama, T., Carillo, E., Espinosa, G., Márquez, R., Diez, C.E., and Koike, H. (1999) Genetic sourcing for the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in the northern Caribbean region. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(2): 296-300.

Karl, S.A. and Bowen, B.W. (1995) Hybridization Among the Ancient Mariners: Characterization of Marine Turtle Hybrids With Molecular Genetic Assays. Journal of Heredity 86: 262-268.

Lara-Ruiz, P., Lopez, G.G., Santos, F.R., and Soares, L.S. (2006) Extensive hybridization in hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting in Brazil revealed by mtDNA analyses. Conservation Genetics (in press) DOI: 10.1007/s10592-005-9102-9

Seminoff, J.A., Karl, S.A., Schwartz, T., and Resendiz, A. (2003) Hybridization of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Pacific Ocean: Indication of an absence of gender bias in the directionality of crosses. Bulletin of Marine Science 73(3): 643-652.

Behavioural Ecology
Butler, J.A. (2001) Nesting biology of the sea turtles of St. Kitts, West Indies. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(1): 191-196.

Meylan, A.B. (1999) International Movements of Immature and Adult Hawksbill Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Caribbean Region. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(2): 189-194.

Troёng, S., Dutton, P.H., and Evans, D. (2005) Migration of hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata from Tortuguero, Costa Rica. Ecography 28: 394-402.

Van Dam, R.P. and Diez, C.E. (1999) Differential Tag Retention in Caribbean Hawksbill Turtles. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(2): 225-229.

Human Impacts and Assessments
Carillo, E., Webb, G.J.W., and Manolis, S.C. (1999) Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Cuba: An Assessment of the Historical Harvest and its Impacts. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(2): 264-280.

Crouse, D.T. (1999) The consequences of delayed maturity in a human-dominated world. American Fisheries Society Symposium 23: 195-202.

Meylan, A.B. and Donnelly, M. (1999) Status Justification for Listing the Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) as Critically Endangered on the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(2): 200-224.

Miller, J.D. (1990) The Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata: a Perspective on the Species. Pp 25-38 in Proceedings of the Australian Marine Turtle Conservation Workshop (R. James, Ed.) Queensland Department of Environment & Australian Nature Conservation Agency.

Scott, N.M. and J.A. Horrocks. (1993) WIDECAST Sea Turtle Recovery Action Plan for St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Karen L. Eckert, Ed.). CEP Technical Report No. 27. UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme, Kingston, Jamaica. 78pp.

Solano, M., Troëng, S., Drews, C., and Dick, B. (2004) Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles - An Introduction. San José: Pro Tempore Secretariat of the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles (IAC).