… ocean currents, we compared actual migration tracks against candidate navigational models
to show that turtles … by deep water (n = 2), we assessed the mean current direction and the …

… Surface currents will be deflected (by the process of Ekman drift) to the left of the direction of
the … However, at the equator, the Coriolis force goes to zero, current flows move zonally from …

… These were entrained in the current, flowing in a south-westerly direction. Virtual hatchling
… may be inadequate for highly migratory species such as sea turtles, dynamic protected areas …

… green turtles and … migrating adult green turtles often follow essentially straight paths to target
sites from hundreds of kilometers away, even when moving perpendicularly to water currents…

… 2014b), there is a ceiling for the maximum reproductive migration distance for adult sea
turtles (Hays and Scott, 2013). Hence juveniles that have drifted far (many 1000 s of km) from …

… swimming direction of the turtle coincided with the direction of current rotation, such that the
… ocean circulation, where advantageous ocean currents are utilized in conditioned migration …

… sea turtles under the combined effects of oceanic currents and … mean direction of movement
is chosen to be the direction of … seasonal migrations, active turtles progressively move east …

… the dispersal of juvenile sea turtles under the combined effects of oceanic currents and
habitat-… systematically move into the half plane towards which ∇h points, that is in a direction that …

… or by ocean current, performing long migrations relying on … the migrations of green turtles
(Chelonia mydas) that migrate … turtles were assumed to adjust their movement direction every …

… related (satellite-recorded) tracks for oceanic currents to estimate the movements of leatherbacks
according to the water … female leatherback turtles during post-nesting migration across …