Pamela Plotkin

Selected Publications

• Benny J. Gallaway, William J. Gazey, Charles W. Caillouet, Jr., Pamela T. Plotkin and 34 others. In press. Development of a Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Stock Assessment Model. Gulf of Mexico Science. 
• Wedemeyer-Strombel, K.R., Balazs, G.H., Johnson, J.B., Peterson, T.D., Wicksten, M.K. and  P.T. Plotkin. 2015. High frequency of occurrence of anthropogenic debris ingestion by sea turtles in the North Pacific ocean. Marine Biology DOI 10.1007/s00227-015-2738-1. 
• Plotkin, P. and J. Bernardo. 2014. Sea turtle funding dries up. Science 343:484. 
• Plotkin, P.T. 2010. Nomadic behavior of the highly-migratory olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Endangered Species Research 13:33-40. 
• Plotkin, P.T. and J.R. Spotila. 2002. Post-nesting migrations of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta from Georgia, U.S.A.: Conservation implications for a genetically distinct sub-population. Oryx 36(4). 
• Spotila, J.R., Reina, R.D., Steyermark, A.C., Plotkin, P.T. and F.V. Paladino. 2000. Pacific leatherback turtles face extinction. Nature 405:529-530. 
• Plotkin, P.T. 1998. Interaction between behavior of marine organisms and the performance of satellite transmitters: A marine turtle case study. Marine Technology Society Journal 32:5-10. 
• Plotkin, P.T., Rostal, D.C., Byles, R.A. and D.W. Owens. 1997. Reproductive and developmental synchrony in female Lepidochelys olivacea. Journal of Herpetology 31:17-22. 
• Ortiz, R., Plotkin, P.T. and D.W. Owens. 1997. Predation on olive ridley sea turtles by the American crocodile at Playa Nancite, Costa Rica. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2:585-587. 
• Plotkin, P.T., D.W. Owens, R.A. Byles, and R. Patterson. 1996. Departure of male olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) from a nearshore breeding area. Herpetologica  52:1-7. 
• Plotkin, P.T. 1996. Occurrence and diet of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2:78-80. 
• Spotila, J.R., A.E. Dunham, A.J. Leslie, A.C. Steyermark, P.T. Plotkin, and F.V. Paladino. 1996. Worldwide population decline of Dermochelys coriacea: Are leatherback turtles going extinct? Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2:209-222. 
• Plotkin, P.T., R.A. Byles, D.C. Rostal, and D.W. Owens. 1995. Independent vs. socially facilitated migrations of the olive ridley, Lepidochelys olivacea.  Marine Biology 122:137-143. 
• Plotkin, P.T., M.K. Wicksten, and A.F. Amos. 1993. Feeding ecology of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology 115:1-5. 
• Amos, A.F. and P.T. Plotkin. 1990. Anthropogenic and natural debris on a south Texas barrier island beach. Pp. 367-368. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Marine Debris. NOAA TM-NMFS-SWFSC-154. 

Recent Books and Book Chapters 

• Plotkin, P.T., A. Abreu-Grobois, and R. Briseño-Dueñas. 2012. Interpreting Signs of Olive Ridley Recovery in the Eastern Pacific. In: J.A. Seminoff and B.P. Wallace (eds.). Sea Turtles of the Eastern Pacific: Advances in Research and Conservation.  Pp. 302-335. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 
• Plotkin, P.T. 2007. Near extinction and recovery. In: P.T. Plotkin (ed.). Biology and Conservation of Ridley Sea Turtles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 
• Bernardo, J. and P.T. Plotkin. 2007. An evolutionary perspective on the arribada phenomenon and reproductive behavioral polymorphism of olive ridley sea turtles,(Lepidochelys olivacea). In: P. T. Plotkin (ed.). Biology and Conservation of Ridley Sea Turtles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 
• Morreale, S.J., Plotkin, P.T., Shaver, D.J. and H.J. Kalb. 2007. Adult Migration and Habitat Utilization: Ridley Turtles in their Element. In: P.T. Plotkin (ed.). Biology and Conservation of Ridley Sea Turtles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 
• Plotkin, P.T. 2003. Adult migrations and habitat use. Pp. 225-241. In: P. Lutz, J. Musick, and J. Wyneken (eds.). The Biology of Sea Turtles: II. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
• Mortimer, J.A., Donnelly, M. and P.T. Plotkin. 2000. Sea turtles. Pp. 59-71. In: C.R.C. Sheppard (ed.). Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Evaluation. Volume III. Global Issues and Processes. Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, U.K. 
• Lutcavage, M., P. Plotkin, B. Witherington and P. Lutz. 1996. Human impacts on sea turtle survival. Pp. 387-409. In: P. Lutz and J. Musick (eds.). The Biology of Sea Turtles. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.