Understanding how organisms store energy is as important as the strategies developed for
its acquisition. Some species store energy prior to starting their reproductive stage (capital …

Feeding ecology is an essential component of an organism's life, but foraging comes with
risks and energetic costs. Species in which populations exhibit more than one feeding …

Just as organisms do not passively exist in their environment, developing sea turtle embryos
affect their own incubation microclimate by producing metabolic heat and other waste …

As biodiversity worldwide is decreasing, to preserve adaptive potential, the importance of
maintaining species' genetic and trait diversities is increasing. An efficient foraging strategy …

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 loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta is a vulnerable migratory species that spends its
first years of life in the open sea. During this developmental phase, loggerheads can be …

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

Sea turtles have long been considered capital breeders, acquiring the energy resources
needed to support breeding before their reproductive migration. Recent evidence, however …

Sea turtles are vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination. Rising
temperatures due to climate change cause female-biased sex ratios. We have assessed the …

While many migratory marine organisms converge at breeding areas, identifying foraging
strategies away from these reproductive sites can be challenging. Adult female green turtles …