A History of Sea Turtle Tagging and Monitoring on Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA

Ondich and Andrews compare the nesting ecology of loggerheads sea turtles on Jekyll Island with that if loggerheads on other islands in the area, which started sea turtle monitoring in 1964. They provide an overview of those transitions, identifying key lessons leaned from Jekyll Island that may be beneficial to sea turtle conservation, research, and management regionally and worldwide.