{"id":102918,"date":"2019-09-23T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918//?p=102918"},"modified":"2019-09-26T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T10:20:17","slug":"hurricane-dorian-washes-out-more-than-8000-sea-turtle-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918//hurricane-dorian-washes-out-more-than-8000-sea-turtle-nests/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918//","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dorian Washes Out More than 8,000 Sea Turtle Nests"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least 8,000 sea turtles nests washed away from the Brevard County portion of the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month because of Hurricane Dorian, according to a 海角直播 survey./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/n

The refuge, which extends from southern Brevard County into Indian River County, is one of the most important nesting grounds in Florida for threatened and endangered sea turtles. Leatherback, loggerhead and green sea turtles are all known to use the refuge during their nesting season, which runs from March to October. UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/u2019s Marine Turtle Research Group has monitored the sea turtles on this beach and elsewhere on the Central Florida coast for decades, providing reliable information about the health and breeding habits of the turtles as a way to inform conservation efforts and provide scientific advisory service for beach and dune restoration./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/u201cWe/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/u2019ve been out daily since the hurricane passed,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/u201d said Katrina Phillips, a doctoral candidate who is a senior member of the research group. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/u201cBased on our surveys of the Brevard portion of the refuge, we estimate that Dorian washed away about 20 percent of the loggerhead nests from this season and about 45 percent of green turtle nests from its season. That/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/u2019s more than 8,000 nests./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/n

Most of the nesting turtles dodged a bullet. The peak of the season for leatherbacks and loggerheads had already passed by the time Dorian arrived, but it was just past prime hatching time for the green turtles./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/102918/n