What makes marine turtles go: a review of metabolic rates and their consequences

BP Wallace, TT Jones - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and …, 2008 - Elsevier
… We reviewed existing literature on marine turtle MRs in the context of the physiology, …
Metabolic rates have been obtained and published for 4 of 7 marine turtle species, but not for all life …

Sea turtles: a review of some key recent discoveries and remaining questions

GC Hays - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2008 - Elsevier
… and, consequently, to have a low metabolic rate. This view has been confirmed with energy
… The consequences of this low metabolic rate is that turtles use their energy reserves very …

Analysis of why sea turtles swim slowly: a metabolic and mechanical approach

C Kinoshita, T Fukuoka, T Narazaki… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
metabolic rate (W) of the green turtles used in this study and the quoted resting metabolic
rate of loggerhead turtles … had been considered when estimating the swim speed, the effect of …

Where have all the turtles gone, and why does it matter?

JE Lovich, JR Ennen, M Agha, JW Gibbons - BioScience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
their environments, but in few have the roles turtles play been examined. In the present article,
we review … The top-down effects of sea turtles on seagrass meadows and coral reefs are …

Growth rates of adult sea turtles

LCM Omeyer, BJ Godley, AC Broderick - Endangered Species …, 2017 - int-res.com
… populations of sea turtles. Here, we review the state of knowledge of growth rates in adult sea
… of body size, metabolic rate and density-dependent effects on food availability and growth …

Why we mind sea turtles' underwater business: A review on the study of diving behavior

S Hochscheid - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2014 - Elsevier
… The temperature effects on turtle physiology, in particular metabolic rate, circulation, … in the
life history of sea turtles, this factor has received rather limited attention in the analysis of dive …

The ecology of overwintering among turtles: where turtles overwinter and its consequences

GR Ultsch - Biological reviews, 2006 - cambridge.org
… have some ability to acclimate both temperature tolerance and metabolic rate to … , sea turtles
move northward to forage during summer, particularly juveniles of several species that move

Behavioral inference of diving metabolic rate in free-ranging leatherback turtles

CJA Bradshaw, CR McMahon… - Physiological and …, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
… the analysis of the relationship between dive duration and maximum dive depth, then maximum
diving … Unlike other sea turtles with hard shells, the primary oxygen stores for leatherback …

Metabolic scaling in turtles

GR Ultsch - Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Here I present a review of the data on turtle metabolic rates at … : (1) reported metabolic rates
for sea turtles are higher than for … a factor of two) to reduce the effects of body size on results. …

Climate change and marine turtles

LA Hawkes, AC Broderick, MH Godfrey… - Endangered Species …, 2009 - int-res.com
review the data from peer-reviewed publications to assess the likely impacts of climate change
on marine turtles … in our knowledge of potential climate change impacts on marine turtles. …