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 …

Identification of high‐use habitat and threats to leatherback sea turtles in northern waters: new directions for conservation

MC James, C Andrea Ottensmeyer, RA Myers - Ecology letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Incidental capture in fisheries threatens many marine vertebrates, however, conservation
cannot be effective without identifying major sources of mortality. For the critically …

A review of the importance of south-east Australian waters as a global hotspot for leatherback turtle foraging and entanglement threat in fisheries

GC Hays, M Morrice, JJ Tromp - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Australia's largest sea turtle is the leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea). Leatherbacks do not
nest, or only rarely, in Australia, and hence receive relatively little research attention. Here …

Leatherback turtles satellite-tagged in European waters

TK Doyle, JDR Houghton, PF O'Súilleabháin… - Endangered Species …, 2008 - int-res.com
The North Atlantic is considered a stronghold for the critically endangered leatherback sea
turtle. However, limited information exists regarding the movements of individuals to and …

Recent Occurrence, Spatial Distribution, and Temporal Variability of Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in Nearshore Waters of South Carolina, USA

TM Murphy, SR Murphy… - Chelonian …, 2006 - meridian.allenpress.com
Based on museum and stranding records, leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) were
previously considered a rare migrant in South Carolina nearshore waters with only 9 …

Tracking leatherback turtles from the world's largest rookery: assessing threats across the South Atlantic

MJ Witt, E Augowet Bonguno… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite extensive work carried out on leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the
North Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, very little is known of the at-sea distribution of this species in …

Population characteristics and seasonal migrations of leatherback sea turtles at high latitudes

MC James, SA Sherrill-Mix, RA Myers - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2007 - int-res.com
Efforts to model populations of the leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea and design
appropriate conservation measures for this endangered species have been hindered by a …

A long-term decline in the abundance of endangered leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, at a foraging ground in the California Current Ecosystem

SR Benson, KA Forney, JE Moore, EL LaCasella… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pacific leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are critically endangered, and declines
have been documented at multiple nesting sites throughout the Pacific. The western Pacific …

Evaluating potential tagging effects on leatherback sea turtles

SA Sherrill-Mix, MC James - Endangered Species Research, 2008 - int-res.com
Although the use of satellite tracking to study the leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys
coriacea continues to increase, there has been little inquiry into the effects of this research …

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 …