The article “Risk analysis reveals global hotspots for marine debris ingestion by sea turtles” by Schuyler, Qamar A. et al. is about the global marine plastic distributions and sea turtle habitat. They are trying to predict how much exposure sea turtles will get to plastic pollution. They took sea turtles that had died and measured all the possible issues that exposure to plastics could have on sea turtles. The scientists also modelled what risks ingestion of debris could have on turtles depending on the age, life history and what type of turtle consumed the plastics. According to Schuyler et al., “The regions of highest risk to global sea turtle populations are off the east coasts of the USA, Australia and South Africa; the east Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia”. They have calculated that as much as 52% of sea turtles have ingested debris in the oceans.

The topic of this article is about where in the world sea turtles are at the most risk for marine debris ingestion.

The type of data needed to answer this question are acts, behaviors or events. The data collection method that was used is detached observations. The scientists also used the turtles for research along with observing their behaviors and where they live. The data analysis method was quantitative data, this is because they counted the sea turtles and found percentages and amounts of plastic in sea turtles.

I thought that this research article was very interesting and it made me want to focus my research on these hot spots of plastic pollutions to turtles. It made me ask more question about possibly what age are turtles affected the most and I didn’t even think that different species of turtles could be affected in different ways. I thought that it was very honest and non-bias and brought many good point to attention. One thing that I found particularly interesting is that loggerhead turtles have a higher probability of ingesting debris than other species.

Schuyler, Qamar A., Chris Wilcox, Kathy A. Townsend, Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel,, George Balazs, Erik Van Sebille, and Britta Denise Hardesty. “Risk Analysis Reveals Global Hotspots for Marine Debris Ingestion by Sea Turtles.” Citation Finder. Global Change Biology, Feb. 2016. Web. 19 Feb. 2017. <http://np9fq3va3u.search.serialssolutions.com/?genre=article&issn=13541013&title=Global%2BChange%2BBiology&volume=22&issue=2&date=20160201&atitle=Risk%2Banalysis%2Breveals%2Bglobal%2Bhotspots%2Bfor%2Bmarine%2Bdebris%2Bingestion%2Bby%2Bsea%2Bturtles.&spage=567&pages=567-576&sid=EBSCO%3AGreenFILE&au=Schuyler%2C%2BQamar%2BA.>.