| 1 | <p>Little is known about sea turtles and their habitats at the remote Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (PANWR) in the Central Pacific. This lack of knowledge may hinder management and conservation efforts. To help provide insights into protection strategies, in this exercise you will make suggestions for designing a comprehensive research program on globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. You will then use existing survey data to answer questions about the relative abundance of endangered sea turtles along the atoll, and critically analyze your results. Finally, you will carry out research to devise your own methods for studying sea turtles at the PANWR.</p>
| 1 | <p>Examining sea turtle populations may seem very abstract to non-science majors. This case study will provide students with the opportunity to understand sea turtles, what role they play in an ecosystem, their complex life cycle, and understanding population data. This case study will also enable students to think about field work and the problems they might face. This will allow students to work in a group to brainstorm answers to questions once they have received the background information on the case study. Then students will look at two graphs and answer questions based on the data.</p> |
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| 5 | <p>Citation: Naro-Maciel E, K Holmes, PJ Ersts, K McFadden, N Bynum, E Sterling. 2009. Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis – Exercise and Instructor’s Materials. <a href="http://ncep.amnh.org/" title="http://ncep.amnh.org">http://ncep.amnh.org</a></p> | | |
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