Over 25 years ago the first satellite tracking studies of sea turtles were published. The
technology and attachment methods have now come of age with long-term tracks over a …

Organisms compensate for reproduction costs through two major strategies: capital breeders
store body reserves before reproduction and do not feed during the breeding season …

It is generally assumed that leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), like other species of
sea turtle, do not feed while offshore from nesting beaches, and rely instead on fat reserves …

Sea turtles generally lay several clutches of eggs in a single nesting season. While a
negative correlation between water temperatures and the time required between constitutive …

The loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta faces declining nest numbers and bycatches from
commercial longline fishing in the southeastern USA. Understanding spatial and temporal …

Sea turtles adjust their behaviour according to the conditions of their habitat, thus saving or
gaining energy during the energetically costly inter-nesting season. This study aimed to …

We report a field observation of an adult female leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
expulsing 2.6 kg of plastic debris from her cloaca while nesting in French Guiana. This field …

The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) predicts that, after correcting for body mass variation
among organisms, the rates of most biological processes will vary as a universal function of …

In long-distance migratory marine species foraging behaviour remains particularly difficult to
study even though it has important consequences for individual life history. Indeed, studies …

Sea turtles, marine mammals and sea birds are vulnerable to higher mortality rates as a
direct function of incidental capture (bycatch) in marine fisheries. Their migratory behavior …