Pelagic habitat characterization of loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in the North Pacific Ocean (1997–2006): Insights from satellite tag tracking and remotely …

DR Kobayashi, JJ Polovina, DM Parker… - Journal of Experimental …, 2008 - Elsevier
… range of surface chlorophyll a habitat identified in this study (0.1–0.3 mg/m 3 ) is interpreted
as identifying the Transition Zone Chlorophyll Front (TZCF) as an important loggerhead

The Kuroshio Extension Bifurcation Region: a pelagic hotspot for juvenile loggerhead sea turtles

J Polovina, I Uchida, G Balazs, EA Howell… - … Sea Research Part II …, 2006 - Elsevier
… There were three release periods: April 2003, November 2003, and April 2004, all
approximately centered at 140.5E longitude and 35N latitude in pelagic waters off Japan. …

Somatic growth model of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta: duration of pelagic stage

KA Bjorndal, AB Bolten, HR Martins - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2000 - int-res.com
… ABSTRACT: The pelagic juvenile stage of sea turtles is … of the pelagic juvenile stage for
loggerhead sea turtles Caretta … loggerheads captured in waters around Azores (pelagic, left-…

Genetic stock composition of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta bycaught in the pelagic waters of the North Atlantic

EL LaCasella, SP Epperly, MP Jensen… - Endangered Species …, 2013 - int-res.com
… Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. We used … loggerhead turtles that use pelagic habitat in
the central North Atlantic. We found that nearly all of the loggerheads caught in NED waters

Size distribution of pelagic-stage loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the waters around the Azores and Madeira

AB Bolten, HR Martins, KA Bjorndal… - … . Ciências Biológicas e …, 1993 - repositorio.uac.pt
… the pelagic stage is also unknown and is critical to our understanding of the demography of
loggerheads… New perspectives on the pelagic stage of sea turtle development. Conservation …

Identification of likely foraging habitat of pelagic loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the North Atlantic through analysis of telemetry track sinuosity

AL McCarthy, S Heppell, F Royer, C Freitas… - Progress in …, 2010 - Elsevier
… , and sea-surface temperature. This analysis differs from other studies of pelagic marine
turtles in … between presence of the animal in the water and intensified search of an area by an …

Foraging ecology of loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta in the central Mediterranean Sea: evidence for a relaxed life history model

P Casale, G Abbate, D Freggi, N Conte… - Marine Ecology …, 2008 - int-res.com
… By means of dietary analyses of loggerhead turtles caught by bottom trawlers and by pelagic
longliners in this unique area (a limited oceanic zone and a wide continental shelf), this …

New perspectives on the pelagic stage of sea turtle development

A Carr - Conservation Biology, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
… It seems reasonable to discard the occasionally mentioned possibility that the Mediterranean
might be the source of the juvenile sea turtles of eastern Atlantic waters. Although Caretta …

Multi-year tracking reveals extensive pelagic phase of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the North Pacific

DK Briscoe, DM Parker, S Bograd, E Hazen, K Scales… - Movement ecology, 2016 - Springer
… the pelagic stage is inferred rather than empirically observed [8]. This is especially true for sea
turtles… have shown that higher water temperatures are energetically more favorable for sea

[PDF][PDF] Distribution and relative abundance of sea turtles caught incidentally by the US pelagic longline fleet in the western North Atlantic Ocean, 1992-1995

WN Witzell - Fishery Bulletin, 1999 - bmis-bycatch.org
… The distribution and abundance of threatened and endangered species of sea turtles in
offshore waters are not well understood. Early oceanographic flights designed to record …