Organisms compensate for reproduction costs through two major strategies: capital breeders
store body reserves before reproduction and do not feed during the breeding season …

The body condition of an animal reflects its energetic state such that an animal in good
condition has greater energy reserves than one that is in poor condition. Body condition in …

Variation in environmental conditions at a foraging area or at a nesting rookery has the
potential to impact reproductive output of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) by affecting …

Most marine turtle species are non-annual breeders and show variation in both the number
of eggs laid per clutch and the number of clutches laid in a season. Large levels of inter …

Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are hypothesized to be capital breeders,
whereby they forage little to none during the nesting season. The capital breeding …

Serum protein concentrations provide insight into the nutritional and immune status of
organisms. It has been suggested that some marine turtles are capital breeders that fast …

Body mass is a major life-history trait and provides a scale for all living processes of
organisms. Unfortunately body mass cannot be easily measured for many species, because …

Nesting hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata and their eggs and young were studied on
Cousine Island, Seychelles from 1995 to 1999. Numbers of females known to nest (tagged …

The trade-off between current and future reproduction plays an important role in
demographic analyses. This can be revealed by the relationship between the number of …

Around the world, declines in the mean size of nesting sea turtles have been reported with
concerns of a concomitant decrease in the reproductive output of populations. Here, we …