Nicole Esteban Ph.D., FHEA, MSc

Hays, G.C., Laloë, J-O., Mortimer, J.A., Rattray, A., Tromp, J.J., Esteban, N. (2024). Remote submerged banks and mesophotic ecosystems can provide key habitat for endangered marine megafauna. Science Advances.

Stokes, H.J., Esteban, N., Hays, G.C. (2024). Nest site selection in sea turtles shows consistencies across the globe in the face of climate change. Animal Behaviour.

Hays, G.C., Rattray, A., Shimada, T., Esteban, N. (2024). Individual variation in home-range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management. Journal of Applied Ecology.

Stokes, H.J., Esteban, N., Hays, G.C. (2023). Predation of sea turtle eggs by rats and crabs. Marine Biology. 

Stokes, H.J., Mortimer, J.A., Laloë, J.-O., Hays, G.C., Esteban, N. (2023). Synergistic use of UAV surveys, satellite tracking data and mark-recapture to estimate abundance of elusive species. Ecosphere.

Mortimer, J.A., Appoo, J., Bautil, B., Betts, M., Burt, A.J., Chapman, R., Currie, J.C., Doak, N., Esteban, N., Liljevik, A., Mahoune, J.T., Onezia, C., Pistorius, P., Richards, H., Samedi, U., Sanchez, C.L., Seabrook, W., Underwood, A., van de Crommenacker, J., von Brandis, R., Hays, G., (2023). Long-term changes in adult size of green turtles at Aldabra Atoll across 35 years and implications for clutch size, sexual dimorphism and growth rates. Marine Biology.

Stokes, K.L., Esteban, N., Stokes, H.J., Hays, G.C. (2023). High dive efficiency in shallow water. Marine Biology.

Hays, G.C., Atchison-Balmond, N., Cerritelli, G., Laloë, J.O., Luschi, P., Mortimer, J.A., Rattray, A., and Esteban, N., (2022) Travel routes to remote ocean targets reveal the map sense resolution for a marine migrant. Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Hoare, V., Atchison Balmond, N., Hays, G.C., Jones, R., Koldewey, H., Laloë, J-O., Levy, E., Llewellyn, F., Morrall, H., Esteban, N. (2022). Plastics dominate beach debris in a remote archipelago; spatial variations in island debris accumulation inform targeted beach management. Marine Pollution Bulletin.

Esteban, N., Mortimer, J.A., Stokes, H.J. et al. A global review of green turtle diet: sea surface temperature as a potential driver of omnivory levels. Mar Biol 167, 183 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03786-8

Hays, G.C., Cerritelli, G., Esteban, N., Rattary, A. and Luschi, P. (2020) Open ocean reorientation and challenges of island finding by sea turtles during long-distance migration. Current Biology.

Hays, G.C., Koldewey, H.J., Andrzejaczek, S., Attrill, M.J., Barley, S., Bayley, D.T.I., Benkwitt, C.E., Block, B., Schallert, R.J., Carlisle, A., Carr, P., Chapple, T.K., Collins, C., Diaz, C., Dunn, N., Dunbar, R.B., Eager, D.S., Engel, J., Embling, C.B., Esteban, N., Ferretti, F., Foster, N.L., Freeman, R., Gollock, M., Graham, N.A.J., Harris, J.L., Head, C.E.I, Hosegood, P., Howell, K.L., Hussey, N.E., Jacoby, D.M.P., Jones, R., Pilly, J.S., Lange, I.D., Letessier, T.B., Levy, E., Lindhart, M., McDevitt-Irwin, J.M., Meekan, M., Meeuwig, J.J., Micheli, F., Mogg, A., Mortimer, J.A., Mucciarone, D.A., Nicoll, M.A., Nuno, A., Perry, C., Preston, S.G., Rattray, A.J., Robinson, E., Roche, R., Schiele, M., Sheehan, E.V., Sheppard, A., Sheppard, C., Smith, A.L., Soule, B., Spalding, M., Stevens, G.M.W., Steyaert, M., Stiffel, S., Taylor, B.M., Tickler, D., Trevail, A.M., Trueba, P., Turner, J., Votier, S., Wilson, B., Williams, G., Williamson, B., Williamson, M.J., Wood, H. and Curnick, D.J. (2020) A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world’s largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges. Marine Biology.

Hays, G.C., Rattray, A. and Esteban, N. (2020) Addressing tagging location bias to assess space use by marine animals. Journal of Applied Ecology.

Shimada, T., Limpus, C. J., Hamann, M., Bell, I., Esteban, N., Groom, R. and Hays, G. C. (2020). Fidelity to foraging sites after long migrations. Journal of Animal Ecology

Mortimer, J.A., Esteban, N., Guzman, A.N and Hays, G.C. (2020) Estimates of marine turtle nesting populations in the south-west Indian Ocean indicate the importance of the Chagos Archipelago. Oryx.

Stokes, H. J., Mortimer, J. A., Hays, G. C., Unsworth, R. K., Laloë, J. O., & Esteban, N. (2019). Green turtle diet is dominated by seagrass in the Western Indian Ocean except amongst gravid females. Marine Biology, 166(10), 135.

Schofield, G., Esteban, N., Katselidis, K. A., & Hays, G. C. (2019). Drones for research on sea turtles and other marine vertebrates–A review. Biological Conservation, 238, 108214.

Hays, G. C., Alcoverro, T., Christianen, M. J., Duarte, C. M., Hamann, M., Macreadie, P. I., … & York, P. H. (2018). New tools to identify the location of seagrass meadows: marine grazers as habitat indicators. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5, 9.

Esteban, N., Unsworth, R. K. F., Gourlay, J. B. Q., & Hays, G. C. (2018). The discovery of deep-water seagrass meadows in a pristine Indian Ocean wilderness revealed by tracking green turtles. Marine pollution bulletin, 134, 99-105.

Dujon, A. M., Schofield, G., Lester, R. E., Esteban, N., & Hays, G. C. (2017). Fastloc-GPS reveals daytime departure and arrival during long-distance migration and the use of different resting strategies in sea turtles. Marine biology, 164(9), 187.

Christiansen, F., Esteban, N., Mortimer, J. A., Dujon, A. M., & Hays, G. C. (2017). Diel and seasonal patterns in activity and home range size of green turtles on their foraging grounds revealed by extended Fastloc-GPS tracking. Marine biology, 164(1), 10.

Thomson, J. A., Börger, L. & Christianen, M. J. A., Esteban, N. J., Laloë, J. O.,  Hays, G. C. (2017). Implications of location accuracy and data volume for home range estimation and fine-scale movement analysis: comparing Argos and Fastloc-GPS tracking data. Marine Biology. 164(10):204.

Esteban, N., Mortimer, J. A., & Hays, G. C. (2017). How numbers of nesting sea turtles can be overestimated by nearly a factor of two. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1849), 20162581.

Esteban, N., Laloë, J. O., Mortimer, J. A., Guzman, A. N., & Hays, G. C. (2016). Male hatchling production in sea turtles from one of the world’s largest marine protected areas, the Chagos Archipelago. Scientific reports, 6, 20339.

Hays, G. C., Mortimer, J. A., Ierodiaconou, D., & Esteban, N. (2014). Use of long‐distance migration patterns of an endangered species to inform conservation planning for the world’s largest marine protected area. Conservation Biology, 28(6), 1636-1644.