This study provides morphometric characteristics of early pelagic stage post-hatchling
loggerheads in the northwestern Atlantic. We investigated whether differences in temporal …

A generalized additive mixed modeling approach was used to assess somatic growth for
juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas at 4 sites in 3 ecologically distinct foraging habitats …

Twelve loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings (Caretta caretta) were removed from a nest site (A)
at the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge (US Fish and Wildlife Service), Virginia Beach, VA …

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the Loggerhead Sea Turtle
(Caretta caretta) as an endangered species. Therefore, its protection and recovery requires …

Despite great advances in the understanding of marine turtle biology over the past 60 yrs,
there is still a paucity of demographic data on the juvenile stage of their life history. These …

CSTC, 1990). Yet in captivity, young seaturtles grow rapidly, often more than doubling their
hatchling carapace lengths in less than a year (Caldwell, 1962; Swingle et al., 1993; Witham …

In response to a call from the US National Research Council for research programs to
combine their data to improve sea turtle population assessments, we analyzed somatic …

cannon near the Azores Islands in Decem-ber 1942. Photo courtesy G. Sytko. agers. The
turtles captured near the Grand Banks appear similar to those turtles reported by Bolten et …

Few studies document early growth of hatchling turtles. We fit growth models to 606
carapace length (CL) measurements of ornate box turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata) for 231 …

An understanding of the rate at which long-lived species grow is essential for determining
important life history parameters, including assessments of foraging habitat quality, the time …