Satellite tracking of sea turtles: where have we been and where do we go next?

BJ Godley, JM Blumenthal, AC Broderick… - Endangered species …, 2008 - int-res.com
The use of satellite tracking for the fundamental and applied study of marine turtles began in
the 1980s but has undergone rapid growth in recent years. To provide a background against …

Satellite tracking sea turtles: Opportunities and challenges to address key questions

GC Hays, LA Hawkes - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Anticyclonic eddies aggregate pelagic predators in a subtropical gyre

MC Arostegui, P Gaube, PA Woodworth-Jefcoats… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Ocean eddies are coherent, rotating features that can modulate pelagic ecosystems across
many trophic levels. These mesoscale features, which are ubiquitous at mid-latitudes, may …

Predicting the impacts of climate change on a globally distributed species: the case of the loggerhead turtle

MJ Witt, LA Hawkes, MH Godfrey… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Marine turtles utilise terrestrial and marine habitats and several aspects of their life history
are tied to environmental features that are altering due to rapid climate change. We overview …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing accuracy and utility of satellite-tracking data using Argos-linked Fastloc-GPS

MJ Witt, S Åkesson, AC Broderick, MS Coyne… - Animal …, 2010 - seaturtle.org
Since the 1980s, the Argos System operated by CLS Argos (http://www. argos-system. org)
has become a dominant system for following large-scale movements of vertebrate species in …

The biology and ecology of the ocean sunfish Mola mola: a review of current knowledge and future research perspectives

EC Pope, GC Hays, TM Thys, TK Doyle… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2010 - Springer
Relatively little is known about the biology and ecology of the world's largest (heaviest) bony
fish, the ocean sunfish Mola mola, despite its worldwide occurrence in temperate and …

Timing of migratory baleen whales at the Azores in relation to the North Atlantic spring bloom

F Visser, KL Hartman, GJ Pierce, VD Valavanis… - Marine Ecology …, 2011 - int-res.com
Each year, a phytoplankton spring bloom starts just north of the North Atlantic Subtropical
Gyre, and then expands northwards across the entire North Atlantic. Here, we investigate …

Maternal transfer of trace elements in leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) of French Guiana

E Guirlet, K Das, M Girondot - Aquatic Toxicology, 2008 - Elsevier
In sea turtles, parental investment is limited to the nutrients and energy invested in eggs that
will support embryonic development. Leatherback females have the largest clutches with the …

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 …

10 Predators, Prey, and the Ecological Roles of Sea Turtles

MR Heithaus - The biology of sea turtles, 2013 - books.google.com
Predator–prey interactions are critical in shaping behavior, ecology, population dynamics,
and life histories and are central to community and ecosystem dynamics. Sea turtles …