Individual variation in home‐range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management

GC Hays, A Rattray, T Shimada… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Overgrazing may lead to management intervention (eg culling, animal relocation) to try and
prevent habitat destruction. Overgrazing leading to seagrass meadow collapse has been …

Seagrass ecosystem multifunctionality under the rise of a flagship marine megaherbivore

MJA Christianen, FOH Smulders, JA Vonk… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Large grazers (megaherbivores) have a profound impact on ecosystem functioning.
However, how ecosystem multifunctionality is affected by changes in megaherbivore …

[HTML][HTML] Daily, seasonal, and long-distance movements inferred from Fastloc-GPS telemetry of immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) at a high-latitude, mid-ocean …

RF Hardy, AB Meylan, JA Gray, PA Meylan - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
To characterize the movements and habitat use of juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in
benthic developmental habitat, we deployed Fastloc-GPS-enabled satellite transmitters on …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring vegetation patterns and their drivers to infer resilience: Automated detection of vegetation and megaherbivores from drone imagery using deep …

RK James, F Daniels, A Chauhan, P Wicaksono… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecological pattern theory has highlighted spatial vegetation patterns that can be used as
indicators of ecosystem resilience. Combining this spatial pattern theory with aerial imagery …

[HTML][HTML] Ontogenetic changes in green turtle (Chelonia mydas) diet and home range in a tropical lagoon

MA Vanderklift, RD Pillans, W Rochester… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ontogenetic changes in habitat and diet are widespread among marine species. Most
species of sea turtles are characterized by extreme ontogenetic changes in habitat use and …

Duration of prolonged simulated green turtle grazing affects Thalassia testudinum regrowth dynamics following grazing cessation in a subtropical Caribbean …

AG Gulick, KM Hanes, AB Bolten, KA Bjorndal - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Populations of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas), a megaherbivore that maintains distinct
areas of seagrass via cultivation grazing, are recovering worldwide. Evaluating seagrass …

The grazing effects of dugongs on seagrass meadows

AM Shawky, S Shabaka - Oceanographic and Marine …, 2024 - books.google.com
Dugongs (Dugong dugon), or sea cows, are herbivorous marine mammals that feed on
seagrass (Marsh et al. 2011). Dugongs are found in the tropical to warm temperate areas …