RESULTSOverall, turtles nested in all available beach micro- habitats (n 1⁄4 161 nests): 3.1% of nests were in the open sand, 38.5% were in the low-lying vegetation, 37.3% were in the forest border, and 21.1% were in the forest (Table 1). The contingency analysis indicated that turtles nested nonrandomly with respect to the amounts of available beach microhabitat (v2 1⁄4 73.74, df 1⁄4 3, P , 0.0001; Table 1).