Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Hatching Success as a Function of Microbial Abundance and the Microenvironment of In Situ Nest Sand at Ostional, Costa Rica

Figure 1

Mean (± SE) hatching success of nests located in different nesting areas of the beach (). Different letters denote statistical difference. Hatching success in the high-nest-density area (0.6%) was significantly lower than in the low-nest-density (68.2%) and tidal-wash (54.7%) areas of the beach ().