Active dispersal in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) during the 'lost years'

DK Briscoe, DM Parker, GH Balazs… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Highly migratory marine species can travel long distances and across entire ocean basins to
reach foraging and breeding grounds, yet gaps persist in our knowledge of oceanic …

[HTML][HTML] A model for simulating the active dispersal of juvenile sea turtles with a case study on western Pacific leatherback turtles

P Gaspar, M Lalire - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Oceanic currents are known to broadly shape the dispersal of juvenile sea turtles during
their pelagic stage. Accordingly, simple passive drift models are widely used to investigate …

Natal site and offshore swimming influence fitness and long-distance ocean transport in young sea turtles

NF Putman, R Scott, P Verley, R Marsh, GC Hays - Marine Biology, 2012 - Springer
Although long-distance transport of marine organisms is constrained by numerous oceanic
and biological factors, some species have evolved life-histories reliant on such movements …

Oceanic dispersal of juvenile leatherback turtles: going beyond passive drift modeling

P Gaspar, SR Benson, PH Dutton, A Réveillère… - Marine Ecology …, 2012 - int-res.com
The current paper presents the first detailed investigation of open-ocean dispersal of
hatchlings and juveniles of the critically endangered western Pacific leatherback turtle …

First satellite tracks of South Atlantic sea turtle 'lost years': seasonal variation in trans-equatorial movement

KL Mansfield, ML Mendilaharsu… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the South Atlantic Ocean, few data exist regarding the dispersal of young oceanic sea
turtles. We characterized the movements of laboratory-reared yearling loggerhead turtles …

[HTML][HTML] Direct evidence of swimming demonstrates active dispersal in the sea turtle “lost years”

NF Putman, KL Mansfield - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Although oceanic dispersal in larval and juvenile marine animals is widely studied, the
relative contributions of swimming behavior and ocean currents to movements and …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite Tracking of Head-Started Juvenile Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) Reveals Release Effects and an Ontogenetic Shift

N Barbour, H Bailey, WF Fagan, W Mustin, V Baboolal… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tracking juvenile animals is often difficult due to their small body sizes. We
put miniature satellite tags on 40 captive-raised (“head-started”) green sea turtles (Chelonia …

Spatio‐temporal variation in ocean current‐driven hatchling dispersion: Implications for the world's largest leatherback sea turtle nesting region

R Scott, A Biastoch, PD Agamboue… - Diversity and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The lives of juvenile leatherback turtles are amongst the most enigmatic of all marine
mega‐vertebrates. For these cryptic organisms, ocean models provide important insights …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the active dispersal of juvenile leatherback turtles in the North Atlantic Ocean

M Lalire, P Gaspar - Movement Ecology, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background The Northwest Atlantic (NWA) leatherback turtle (Dermochelys
coriacea) subpopulation is one of the last healthy ones on Earth. Its conservation is thus of …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-year tracking reveals extensive pelagic phase of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the North Pacific

DK Briscoe, DM Parker, S Bograd, E Hazen, K Scales… - Movement ecology, 2016 - Springer
Background The juvenile stage of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can last for
decades. In the North Pacific Ocean, much is known about their seasonal movements in …