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  1. Many marine animals swim at similar relative depths when travelling and not feeding to save energy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Kimberley Stokes, Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes, Professor Graeme C Hays

  2. What are the effects of satellite tagging on immature turtles?

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, November 2024, Wiley

    Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes, Professor Graeme C Hays

  3. Sand temperature variability at a sea turtle nesting site in the Indian Ocean

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes, Professor Graeme C Hays

  4. First evidence of marine turtle gastroliths in a fossil specimen: Paleobiological implications in comparison to modern analogues

    Article • PLOS One, May 2024, PLOS

    Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes

  5. Remote submerged banks and mesophotic ecosystems can provide key habitat for endangered marine megafauna

    Article • Science Advances, February 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  6. Individual variation in home‐range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, February 2024, Wiley

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  7. Nest site selection in sea turtles shows consistencies across the globe in the face of climate change

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes

  8. Predation of sea turtle eggs by rats and crabs

    Article • Marine Biology, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes

  9. High dive efficiency in shallow water

    Article • Marine Biology, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes

  10. Long-term changes in adult size of green turtles at Aldabra Atoll and implications for clutch size, sexual dimorphism and growth rates

    Article • Marine Biology, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  11. Travel routes to remote ocean targets reveal the map sense resolution for a marine migrant

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, May 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  12. Reconstructing past thermal conditions in beach microclimates

    Article • Global Change Biology, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  13. Impact of marine heatwaves for sea turtle nest temperatures

    Article • Biology Letters, May 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  14. A global review of green turtle diet: sea surface temperature as a potential driver of omnivory levels

    Article • Marine Biology, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes

  15. A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world’s largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges

    Article • Marine Biology, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  16. Addressing tagging location bias to assess space use by marine animals

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, August 2020, Wiley

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  17. Open Ocean Reorientation and Challenges of Island Finding by Sea Turtles during Long-Distance Migration

    Article • Current Biology, August 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  18. Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Eduardo Infantes, Dr Nicole Esteban

  19. Estimates of marine turtle nesting populations in the south-west Indian Ocean indicate the importance of the Chagos Archipelago

    Article • Oryx, February 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  20. Fidelity to foraging sites after long migrations

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, December 2019, Wiley

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  21. Drones for research on sea turtles and other marine vertebrates – A review

    Article • Biological Conservation, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  22. Green turtle diet is dominated by seagrass in the Western Indian Ocean except amongst gravid females

    Article • Marine Biology, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicole Esteban, Dr Holly Jayne Stokes

  23. Sowing the Seeds of Seagrass Recovery Using Hessian Bags

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, August 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  24. Potential male leatherback hatchlings exhibit higher fitness which might balance sea turtle sex ratios in the face of climate change

    Article • Climatic Change, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  25. Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. DIRCEU COSTA, Dr Nicole Esteban

  26. Optimism for mitigation of climate warming impacts for sea turtles through nest shading and relocation

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  27. The discovery of deep-water seagrass meadows in a pristine Indian Ocean wilderness revealed by tracking green turtles

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  28. New Tools to Identify the Location of Seagrass Meadows: Marine Grazers as Habitat Indicators

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, February 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  29. Implications of location accuracy and data volume for home range estimation and fine-scale movement analysis: comparing Argos and Fastloc-GPS tracking data

    Article • Marine Biology, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  30. Fastloc-GPS reveals daytime departure and arrival during long-distance migration and the use of different resting strategies in sea turtles

    Article • Marine Biology, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  31. How numbers of nesting sea turtles can be overestimated by nearly a factor of two

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  32. Diel and seasonal patterns in activity and home range size of green turtles on their foraging grounds revealed by extended Fastloc-GPS tracking

    Article • Marine Biology, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  33. Male hatchling production in sea turtles from one of the world’s largest marine protected areas, the Chagos Archipelago

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  34. Sand temperatures for nesting sea turtles in the Caribbean: Implications for hatchling sex ratios in the face of climate change

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  35. Green and hawksbill turtles in the Lesser Antilles demonstrate behavioural plasticity in inter-nesting behaviour and post-nesting migration

    Article • Marine Biology, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  36. Use of Long-Distance Migration Patterns of an Endangered Species to Inform Conservation Planning for the World's Largest Marine Protected Area

    Article • Conservation Biology, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Graeme C Hays, Dr Nicole Esteban

  37. Marine Mammals of the Northeastern Caribbean Windward Dutch Islands: Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, and the Saba Bank

    Article • Caribbean Journal of Science, June 2013, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

    Dr Nicole Esteban

  38. Observations on the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) in the Dutch Caribbean

    Article • Caribbean Journal of Science, June 2013, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

    Dr Nicole Esteban