Home on the range: spatial ecology of loggerhead turtles in Atlantic waters of the USA

LA Hawkes, MJ Witt, AC Broderick… - Diversity and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although satellite tracking has yielded much information regarding the migrations and
habitat use of threatened marine species, relatively little has been published about the …

Canadian waters provide critical foraging habitat for leatherback sea turtles

MC James, SA Sherrill-Mix, K Martin, RA Myers - Biological Conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
From 1998–2005, we collected 851 geo-referenced records of leatherback turtles,
Dermochelys coriacea, from a volunteer network of commercial fishers and tour boat …

Persistent leatherback turtle migrations present opportunities for conservation

GL Shillinger, DM Palacios, H Bailey, SJ Bograd… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Effective transboundary conservation of highly migratory marine animals requires
international management cooperation as well as clear scientific information about habitat …

Coastal leatherback turtles reveal conservation hotspot

NJ Robinson, SJ Morreale, R Nel, FV Paladino - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Previous studies have shown that the world's largest reptile–the leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea–conducts flexible foraging migrations that can cover thousands of …

Do leatherback turtles Dermochelys coriacea forage during the breeding season? A combination of data-logging devices provide new insights

AE Myers, GC Hays - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2006 - int-res.com
Animals which undertake migrations from foraging grounds to suitable breeding areas must
adopt strategies in these new conditions in order to minimise the rate at which body …

Long-distance migrations by the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, from north-eastern Australia

JD Miller, KA Dobbs, CJ Limpus, N Mattocks… - Wildlife …, 1998 - CSIRO Publishing
Tag recoveries from four adult female hawksbill turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, tagged on
the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, are reported. Hawksbill turtles on breeding migrations …

Long-term monitoring of leatherback turtle diving behaviour during oceanic movements

A Sale, P Luschi, R Mencacci, P Lambardi… - Journal of Experimental …, 2006 - Elsevier
The diving behaviour of four leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) was recorded for
periods of 0.5–8.1 months during their postnesting movements in the Indian and Atlantic …

The role of infrequent and extraordinary deep dives in leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)

JDR Houghton, TK Doyle, J Davenport… - Journal of …, 2008 - journals.biologists.com
Infrequent and exceptional behaviours can provide insight into the ecology and physiology
of a particular species. Here we examined extraordinarily deep (300–1250 m) and …

Changes in diel diving patterns accompany shifts between northern foraging and southward migration in leatherback turtles

MC James, CA Ottensmeyer, SA Eckert… - Canadian Journal of …, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Diel diving patterns have been widely documented among plankton-feeding marine
vertebrates. In many cases, these patterns have been interpreted as a response to the diel …

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 …