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1. Hawksbill sea turtle Conservation & Management
Management/Conservation Paper Specifications You will be writing a short scientific paper
on the management and/or conservation of your species that will be worth 100 points. This
should include information about the threats, management (if relevant) and potential
solutions to issues facing your species. CRITICAL COMPONENTS 1. Text – 2 FULL pages
TOTAL: A. Threats overview (approximately 0.5 page): Give an overview and summarize the
different kind of threats facing your species. These may include but not limited to: bycatch,
climate change, resource competition with humans, poaching, or directed harvest (e.g.,
overexploitation of commercially valuable species). B. Focus on a single threat
(approximately 0.5 page): Go into more detail on a single (or multiple closely related)
threat. For example, you may focus on the bycatch levels of a species in several different
fisheries or gear types, where it occurs, and the impacts on population levels. In this section,
focus on describing the threat, its extent, and the impact it has on the population. C.
Management or conservation efforts (approximately 0.5 page): In this section, discuss and
summarize the management or conservation efforts that have been used to try to mitigate
threats to your species, ideally focused on the threat you focused on above (though it may
cover more than that single threat). For example, if the threat you focused on was bycatch,
perhaps you found papers that discuss closed fishing areas to reduce bycatch or the use of
different gear modifications. The efforts you discuss should come from the primary (e.g.,
journal articles) or secondary literature (e.g., government reports), NOT from webpages. 2.
Figures: Include at least one figure in your paper. This should be at the end of the paper
after the literature cited, and does not count towards your three pages. The figure should be
a figure drawn from the primary or secondary literature about your species such as a map
of where bycatch occurs; note that this figure should not be a photo. This is a figure that
comes directly from one of your sources, not one you make yourself. Your figure should be
properly referenced in the text. For example: Penguins were predicted to be found in the
eastern part of the Ross Sea (Ainley et al. 2010, Figure 1). Caption for the figure should also
be included, but write your own caption that interprets the figure for the reader, and cite
the paper the figure is from. For example: Figure 1. Map illustrating the distribution of king
penguins during winter based on several oceanographic characteristics throughout the Ross
Sea using generalized additive mixed models. Model predictions show that penguins are
more likely to be found in the eastern part of the Ross Sea. Source: Ainley et al. 2010. 3.
References: You must include three references from the primary literature or from an
edited book volume or from a government report (note that government reports are the

2. only acceptable reports). Primary scientific literature most often will be journal articles that
have a ‘Materials and Methods’ section and ‘Results’ section, and authors may use ‘we’ or ‘I’
to describe what was done. They are usually very specific: mentioning particular places,
organisms, etc. These references should be listed on a separate page at the end of your
paper (but before figures) and do not count towards your 2 pages. In citing your references,
may use Endnote (available for free through ODU Software Services:
https://www.odu.edu/ts/software-services/endnote) or done by hand; your references
should be done using the style of the journal Ecology. Your citations should look like this: a.
In text, sources should be cited as: i. One Author: (Author Year) 1. Example:(Agardy 2000) ii.
Two Authors: (Author 1 and Author 2 Year) 1. Example: (Abbott and Wilen 2011)(Abbott
and Wilen 2011) iii. Three Authors: (Author 1 et al. Year) 1. Example: (Abascal et al. 2011)
b. How to cite sources at the end of your paper: i. For a journal, the information should be
listed as: Author 1, Author 2 and Author 3. Year. Title. Journal Volume: Pages. 1. Example:
Abascal, F. J., M. Quintans, A. Ramos-Cartelle, and J. Mejuto. 2011. Movements and
environmental preferences of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the southeastern
Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology 158:1175-1184. ii. For a book, information should be listed
as: Author 1 and Author 2. Year. Book title. Publisher, City. 1. Example: Kenward, R. 1987.
Wildlife Radio Tagging: Equipment, Field Techniques and Data Analysis. Academic Press,
London. iii. For an edited book, information should be listed as: Author 1 and Author 2.
Year. Book section title. Pages XX-XX in Editor name. Book name. Publisher, City. 1.
Example: Butler, P. J. 1993. To what extent can heart rate be used as an indicator of
metabolic rate in free-living marine mammals? Pages 317–332 in I. L. Boyd, editor. Marine
Mammals: Advances in Behavioral and Population Biology. Clarendon Press,
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