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Competing Interests

Stephanie Butera is employed by Global Vision International and Jaime Restrepo is employed by the Sea Turtle Conservancy of Tortuguero. These two organisations work in partnership to study marine turtle nesting on Tortuguero beach.

Author Contributions

Stephanie Butera conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Jaime Restrepo conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper.

Field Study Permissions

The following information was supplied relating to field study approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Research permits were provided by Area de Conservacion de Tortuguero ACTo) and the Ministero de Ambiente y Energia (MINAE).

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The research in this article did not generate any data or code.

This is an abstract submission, not for peer review

Funding

This work was supported by donors of the Sea Turtle Conservancy and by all staff, research assistants, interns, and volunteers from both Global Vision International Jalova and the Sea Turtle Conservancy Tortuguero. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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