Publications

 

Frick, M.G. 1996. A Guide for the Identification of Stranded Sea Turtles: Eastern United States and Gulf of Mexico. Savannah Science Museum Special Publication no. 4 iii plus 22pp.


Frick, M.G. 1997. Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley), Caretta caretta (loggerhead) and Malaclemys terrapin centrata (Diamondback terrapin). Diet and predation. Herpetological Review 28(3). p. 149.


Frick, M.G., 1998. Loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta. Predation. Herpetological Review 29(4). p.234.


Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams, M. Robinson. 1998. Epibionts associated with nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in Georgia, USA. 1998. Herpetological Review 29(4). p.211-214.


Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams and D.Veljacic. 2000. Additional evidence supporting a cleaning association between epibiotic crabs and sea turtles: how will the harvest of sargassum seaweed impact this relationship? Marine Turtle Newsletter no. 90. p. 11-12.


Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams, D.Veljacic, L. Pierard, J.A. Jackson and S.E. Knight. 2000. Newly documented epibiont speciesfrom nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in Georgia, USA. Marine Turtle Newsletter no. 88. p. 3-5.


Williams, K.L. and M.G. Frick. 2001. Results from the long-term monitoring of nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) on Wassaw Island, GA: 1973-2000. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-446 January 2001, 32 pp.


Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams and L. Pierrard. Summertime Foraging and Feeding by Imature Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) in Georgia. 2001. Chelonian Conservation and Biology v. 4, no. 1, p. 178-181.


Frick, M.G. and A. Ross. 2002. Happenstance or design: An unusual association between a sea turtle, octocoral and barnacle. Marine Turtle Newsletter no. 97 p. 10-11.


Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams and D.C. Veljacic. 2002. A record of the northernmost, verified leatherback sea turtle nesting event on the East Coast of the U.S. Marine Turtle Newsletter 97. p. 12-13.


Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams, D.C. Veljacic. 2002. New records from epibionts from loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta).  Bulletin of Marine Science 70(3) p. 953-956.


Frick, M.G. 2003. The surf crab (Arenaeus cribrarius): A predator and prey item of sea turtles. Marine Turtle Newsletter no. 99. p. 16-18.


Frick, M.G., P.A. Mason, K.L. Williams, K. Andrews and H. Gerstung. 2003. Epibionts of hawksbill turtles in a Caribbean nesting ground: a potentially unique association with snapping shrimp (Crustacea: Alpheidae). Marine Turtle Newsletter no. 99. p. 16-18.


Rawson, P.D., R. MacNamee, M.G. Frick, K.L. Williams. 2003. Phylogeography of the coronulid barnacle, Chelonibia testudinaria, from loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta. Molecular Ecology. v. 12. p. 2697-2706.


Frick, M.G. A. Ross, K.L. Williams, A.B. Bolten, K.A. Bjorndal and H. Martins. 2003. Epibiotic associates of oceanic-stage loggerhead turtles from the southeastern North Atlantic. Marine Turtle Newsletter no. 101. p. 18-20.


Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams, A.B. Bolten, K.A. Bjorndal and H.R. Martins. 2004. Diet and fecundity of Columbus crabs (Planes minutus) associated with ocean stage loggerhead sea turtles, (Caretta caretta), and inanimate objects. Journal of Crustacean Biology 24(2) p. 350-355.

 

Frick, M.G., K.L. Williams, E.J. Markesteyn, J.B. Pfaller and R.E. Frick. 2004. New records and observations of epibionts from loggerhead sea turtles. Southeastern Naturalist 3(4). p. 613-620.


Williams, K.L., M.G. Frick and J.B. Pfaller. 2006.  First report of green, Chelonia mydas, and Kemp's ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, turtle nesting on Wassaw Island, Georgia, USA. Marine Turtle Newsletter No. 113. p. 8.


Williams, K.L. and M.G. Frick. 2008. Tag Returns from Loggerhead Turtles from Wassaw Island, GA. Southeastern Naturalist v. 7, no. 1, p. 165-172.


Shamblin, B.M., M.G. Dodd, K.L. Williams, M.G. Frick, R. Bell and C.J. Nairn. 2011. Loggerhead turtle eggshells as a source maternal nuclear genomic DNA for population genetic studies. Molecular Ecology Resources 11. p. 110-115.



 

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