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1 December 2006 Filtered Streetlights Attract Hatchling Marine Turtles
Kristen Nelson Sella, Michael Salmon, Blair E. Witherington
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Abstract

On many nesting beaches, hatchling marine turtles are exposed to poled street lighting that disrupts their ability to crawl to the sea. Experiments were done to determine how hatchlings responded to street lighting transmitted through 2 filters that excluded the most disruptive wavelengths (those < 530 nm; those < 570 nm). Filtered lighting, however, also attracted the turtles though not as strongly as an unfiltered (high-pressure sodium vapor) lighting. Filtering is therefore of limited utility for light management, especially since other alternatives (such as lowering, shielding, or turning off unnecessary lighting; use of dimmer lights embedded in roadways) are more effective.

Kristen Nelson Sella, Michael Salmon, and Blair E. Witherington "Filtered Streetlights Attract Hatchling Marine Turtles," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 5(2), 255-261, (1 December 2006). https://doi.org/10.2744/1071-8443(2006)5[255:FSAHMT]2.0.CO;2
Received: 29 September 2004; Accepted: 1 September 2005; Published: 1 December 2006
KEYWORDS
artificial lighting
Caretta caretta
Chelonia mydas
Cheloniidae
Florida
Hatchlings
light “trapping”
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