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
… We tagged 46 female leatherback turtles with satellite transmitters at Playa Grande, Costa
habitat preferences of these leatherback turtles in the South Pacific Ocean. The turtles

[HTML][HTML] 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
… in identifying leatherback foraging habitat in neritic regions. High-use habitat for leatherbacks
in … Caribbean, putting turtles at heightened risk from land- and ocean-based human activity. …

Prey landscapes help identify potential foraging habitats for leatherback turtles in the NE Atlantic

MJ Witt, AC Broderick, DJ Johns, C Martin… - Marine Ecology …, 2007 - int-res.com
… We identify probable foraging grounds for leatherback turtles in the NE Atlantic using
monthly landscapes of gelatinous organism distribution constructed from Continuous Plankton …

[HTML][HTML] Pelagic movements of pacific leatherback turtles (dermochelys coriacea) highlight the role of prey and ocean currents

RS Schick, JJ Roberts, SA Eckert, PN Halpin… - Movement Ecology, 2013 - Springer
… Two of the turtles express a preference for patches at depth with elevated diatoms, and 2 …
on moving leatherback turtles from the Eastern Pacific. To understand how individual turtles

Identification of high-use internesting habitats for eastern Pacific leatherback turtles: role of the environment and implications for conservation

GL Shillinger, AM Swithenbank, SJ Bograd… - Endangered Species …, 2010 - int-res.com
… of PNMB as a critical habitat for internesting leatherback turtles, but also suggest that a …
preferences. Our findings demonstrated no significant differences in turtle SST preference

Leatherback turtles as oceanographic indicators: stable isotope analyses reveal a trophic dichotomy between ocean basins

BP Wallace, JA Seminoff, SS Kilham, JR Spotila… - Marine Biology, 2006 - Springer
… Thus, high-order marine consumer movements, habitat preferences, and stable isotope
signatures can be combined with ocean sampling to elucidate interactions between …

Nest site selection in leatherbacks, Dermochelys coriacea: individual patterns and their consequences

SJ Kamel, N Mrosovsky - Animal Behaviour, 2004 - Elsevier
… Although they do show a preference for the open sand, leatherbacks may nevertheless …
We recorded the location of 342 nests from 170 female leatherback turtles. Of these, 85 turtles

The Gulf Stream frontal system: A key oceanographic feature in the habitat selection of the leatherback turtle?

P Chambault, F Roquet, S Benhamou… - Deep Sea Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
… We assessed the habitat use of leatherback turtles in the vertical dimension by extracting
sea water … of HRT areas located at mid-latitudes suggests a preference for cool waters (mean …

Canadian waters provide critical foraging habitat for leatherback sea turtles

MC James, SA Sherrill-Mix, K Martin, RA Myers - Biological Conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
… referenced records of leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea… temporal distribution of
leatherbacks in temperate northwest … , rather than the turtles’ true thermal preferences. Ocean …

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

MC James, RA Myers… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
leatherback turtles: turtle A, a mature female (CCL=155.5 cm) tagged in an inter-nesting year,
and turtle B… additional subadult (turtle C: CCL=134.0 cm) and a mature male (turtle D: CCL=…