Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

AR Patrício, LA Hawkes, JR Monsinjon… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

Animal migration: An overview of one of nature's great spectacles

AM Fudickar, AE Jahn… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in research on animal migration, in
large part due to a technological revolution in tracking and remote-sensing technologies …

Simulating transport pathways of pelagic Sargassum from the Equatorial Atlantic into the Caribbean Sea

NF Putman, GJ Goni, LJ Gramer, C Hu, EM Johns… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Since 2011, beach inundation of massive amounts of pelagic Sargassum algae has
occurred around the Caribbean nations and islands. Previous studies have applied satellite …

First Atlantic satellite tracks of 'lost years' green turtles support the importance of the Sargasso Sea as a sea turtle nursery

KL Mansfield, J Wyneken, J Luo - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In-water behaviour and long-term movements of oceanic-stage juvenile sea turtles are not
well described or quantified. This is owing to technological or logistical limitations of tracking …

Improving transport predictions of pelagic Sargassum

NF Putman, R Lumpkin, MJ Olascoaga… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Elsevier
A mechanistic understanding of organismal movement provides context for existing
biogeographic and ecological patterns and improves our ability to predict changing patterns …

[HTML][HTML] Global perspectives on observing ocean boundary current systems

RE Todd, FP Chavez, S Clayton, S Cravatte… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean boundary current systems are key components of the climate system, are home to
highly productive ecosystems, and have numerous societal impacts. Establishment of a …

Certainty and integration of options in animal movement

HJ Williams, K Safi - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Physical energy defines the energy landscape and determines the species-specific cost of
movement, thus influencing movement decisions. In unpredictable and dynamic …

Evidence of backcross inviability and mitochondrial DNA paternal leakage in sea turtle hybrids

ST Vilaça, F Maroso, P Lara, B de Thoisy… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization is known to be part of many species' evolutionary history. Sea turtles have a
fascinating hybridization system in which species separated by as much as 43 million years …

Predicted distributions and abundances of the sea turtle 'lost years' in the western North Atlantic Ocean

NF Putman, EE Seney, P Verley, DJ Shaver… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic dispersal characterizes the early juvenile life‐stages of numerous marine species
of conservation concern. This early stage may be a 'critical period'for many species, playing …

Does the transport of larvae throughout the south Atlantic support the genetic and morphometric diversity of the Sally Lightfoot Crabs Grapsus grapsus (Linnaeus …

AS Freire, MM Teschima, MC Brandao… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grapsus grapsus and Grapsus adscensionis are supralittoral crabs that are known to inhabit
oceanic islands and depend on surface currents to recruit in the rocky shores. The …