Innovative monitoring scheme adapted to remote, scattered nesting aggregation reveals a major loggerhead turtle rookery in New Caledonia, South Pacific

• Hugo Bourgogne ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hugo.bourgogne@ird.fr

  Affiliations UMR 250 ENTROPIE, Centre IRD de Nouméa, IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France, WWF-France Bureau Nouvelle-Calédonie, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nouméa, New Caledonia, France

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4966-6670

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• Marc Oremus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WWF-France Bureau Nouvelle-Calédonie, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nouméa, New Caledonia, France

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• Morgan Mangeas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UMR 250 ENTROPIE, Centre IRD de Nouméa, IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France

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• Eric Vidal,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UMR 250 ENTROPIE, Centre IRD de Nouméa, IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France

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• Marc Girondot

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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