Pietroluongo, G., Quintana, B., Dias, V., Falquina Fernández, F.J., Gheorghiu, A., Moscatelli, S., Grandjean, T., Antichi, S., Ashok, K., Delaveri, K., Miliou, A. Evidence of Nesting Area of Caretta caretta and Potential Foraging Areas of Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas on Samos and Lipsi Islands, North-Eastern Aegean Sea. 6th Mediterranean Conference on Marine Turtles 2018.

Introduction:

The regular presence of two species of sea turtles, Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas, was recorded in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Aegean Sea is known to be a foraging habitat related to Posidonia oceanica meadows. Greece and Turkey alone represent more than 75% of the nesting effort in the Mediterranean. The North-Eastern Aegean area is considered data-deficient or data-absent, despite significant research advances in the recent years. This study aims to determine the presence of foraging and nesting areas on the islands of Samos and Lipsi.