Sea turtle health is an important component of conservation since these taxa is susceptible
to infectious diseases that can cause illness leading to mortality. Threats to the health …

Eggs of the turtle Chrysemys picta bellii from four western Nebraska populations were
incubated under laboratory conditions to compare egg size and hatchling size as measures …

Leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, are highly migratory, spending most of their lives
submerged or offshore where their feeding habits are difficult to observe. In order to …

The post-hatchling stage of a sea turtle's life history has often been referred to as the'lost
years', reflecting the lack of understanding about this phase in their life. Obtaining …

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

ALL species of sea turtle are included on the Red List of the International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN 2007). Two families and seven …

Blood samples were collected from ten juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, from
two months to one year of age. The turtles were also weighed and measured at the time of …

Life-history theory predicts that a trade-off in the allocation of resources between different
physiological systems exists because resources are finite. As a result, females investing …

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 …

Intra-specific variation in life history traits and/or population trends provides 'natural
experiments' to identify causes of observable differences among populations of organisms …