Influence of oceanic factors on long-distance movements of loggerhead sea turtles displaced in the southwest Indian Ocean

R Mencacci, E De Bernardi, A Sale, JRE Lutjeharms… - Marine Biology, 2010 - Springer
The routes of five satellite-tracked loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta), subjected to an
experimental translocation away from their usual migratory routes, have been analysed in …

Current transport of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the ocean

P Luschi, A Sale, R Mencacci… - … of the Royal …, 2003 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While the long-distance movements of pelagic vertebrates are becoming known thanks to
satellite telemetry, the factors determining their courses have hardly been investigated. We …

Influence of ocean currents on long-distance movement of leatherback sea turtles in the Southwest Indian Ocean

P Lambardi, JRE Lutjeharms, R Mencacci… - Marine Ecology …, 2008 - int-res.com
Leatherback turtles Dermochelys coriacea spend most of their life in oceanic environments,
whose physical and biological characteristics are primarily forged by sea current circulation …

Satellite tracking of migrating loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) displaced in the open sea

P Luschi, GR Hughes, R Mencacci, E De Bernardi… - Marine Biology, 2003 - Springer
Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) are known to migrate towards fixed, individually-specific
residential feeding grounds. To study their spatial behaviour and their navigational ability …

Oceanic migration of post-nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the northwestern North Pacific tracked by satellite telemetry

T Nobetsu, H Minami, M Kiyota… - … on the 4th …, 2003 - repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Two post-nesting loggerhead turtles which nested at Omaezaki beach, Japan were tracked
during 2002 and 2003 in the northwestern North Pacific by satellite telemetry. The first …

Orientation of migrating leatherback turtles in relation to ocean currents

S Galli, P Gaspar, S Fossette, B Calmettes, GC Hays… - Animal Behaviour, 2012 - Elsevier
During their offshore movements, leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, associate
frequently with ocean currents and mesoscale oceanographic features such as eddies, and …

The relationship between loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) movement patterns and Mediterranean currents

F Bentivegna, F Valentino, P Falco, E Zambianchi… - Marine Biology, 2007 - Springer
Previous studies have shown that loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), monitored by
satellite telemetry, complete long-distance migration between the western and eastern …

Drifting and meandering of Olive Ridley sea turtles in the Bay of Bengal: role of oceanic Rossby waves

PS Ram, SA Rao, Y Sadhuram - Marine Geodesy, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Olive Ridley turtles in the Bay of Bengal are previously thought to migrate southward from
their nesting ground, along the east coast of India (Orissa coast), towards Sri Lanka …

The navigational feats of green sea turtles migrating from Ascension Island investigated by satellite telemetry

P Luschi, GC Hays, C Del Seppia… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Previous tagging studies of the movements of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nesting at
Ascension Island have shown that they shuttle between this remote target in the Atlantic …

Intra-Mediterranean migrations of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) monitored by satellite telemetry

F Bentivegna - Marine Biology, 2002 - Springer
The movements of four Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta; three
females, one male) were tracked via satellite telemetry for between 108 and 457 days. Total …