Insights on leatherback turtle movements and high use areas in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

M López-Mendilaharsu, CFD Rocha, P Miller… - Journal of Experimental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, undertake broad oceanic movements while
traveling between breeding and foraging areas. While satellite telemetry has been used to …

High-use oceanic areas for Atlantic leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) as identified using satellite telemetered location and dive information

SA Eckert - Marine Biology, 2006 - Springer
The movements and behavior of nine female leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys coriacea
(L.) were monitored for up to 370 days from their nesting beaches on the Caribbean island of …

Movements of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the Gulf of Mexico

KT Aleksa, CR Sasso, RW Nero, DR Evans - Marine Biology, 2018 - Springer
Leatherback turtles are a migratory marine species that occur worldwide. Although known to
inhabit the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), no quantitative studies have investigated the space use of …

Vertical and horizontal habitat preferences of post-nesting leatherback turtles in the South Pacific Ocean

GL Shillinger, AM Swithenbank, H Bailey… - Marine Ecology …, 2011 - int-res.com
Leatherback turtles are the largest and widest ranging turtle species, and spend much of
their time in the offshore pelagic environment. However, the high seas have thus far …

Leatherback turtle movements, dive behavior, and habitat characteristics in ecoregions of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

KL Dodge, B Galuardi, TJ Miller, ME Lutcavage - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, are highly migratory predators that feed
exclusively on gelatinous zooplankton, thus playing a unique role in coastal and pelagic …

Behaviour of leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, during the migratory cycle

MC James, RA Myers… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, undertake broad oceanic movements. While
satellite telemetry has been used to investigate the post-nesting behaviour of female turtles …

Identification of the Gulf of Mexico as an important high‐use habitat for leatherback turtles from Central America

DR Evans, RA Valverde, C Ordoñez, RR Carthy - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endangered leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are wide‐ranging, long‐
distance migrants whose movements are often associated with environmental cues. We …

Oceanic habits and habitats

VS Saba - Biol Sea Turtles, 2013 - books.google.com
This chapter will focus on the coastal and pelagic ocean habitats of leatherback turtles
(Dermochelys coriacea) in terms of migration, foraging, physiology, and dive behavior with …

High-use areas, seasonal movements and dive patterns of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean

C Barceló, A Domingo, P Miller, L Ortega… - Marine Ecology …, 2013 - int-res.com
Characterizing the behaviors of sea turtles and identifying high-use areas as they vary in
time and space is important for conservation planning, particularly when turtles overlap with …

Leatherback turtles in the eastern Gulf of Mexico: foraging and migration behavior during the autumn and winter

CR Sasso, PM Richards, SR Benson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We deployed 19 satellite tags on foraging adult leatherback turtles, including 17 females
and 2 males, captured in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in 2015, 2018, and 2019 in order to …