Ecological extinction caused by overfishing precedes all other pervasive human disturbance
to coastal ecosystems, including pollution, degradation of water quality, and anthropogenic …

To better understand dietary requirements, trophic shifts, and trophic interactions of the
threatened green turtle (Chelonia mydas), we conducted a comprehensive global review …

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) An essential textbook for any student or
researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the …

Sea turtles are slow growing and long lived. Their complex life history patterns encompass a
diversity of ecosystems from terrestrial habitats where oviposition and embryonic …

Plastic marine debris pollution is rapidly becoming one of the critical environmental
concerns facing wildlife in the 21st century. Here we present a risk analysis for plastic …

Biologists have developed a wide range of morphological, biochemical and physiological
metrics to assess the health and, in particular, the energetic status of individual animals …

The success of the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles revealed a need for broad but
comprehensive reviews of major recent advances in sea turtle biology. Biology of Sea …

Humans transformed Western Atlantic coastal marine ecosystems before modern ecological
investigations began. Paleoecological, archeological, and historical reconstructions …

Carrying capacity encompasses a broad collection of approaches used to better understand
biotic interactions in ecosystems and is often applied with no explicit regard to its historical …

Summary 1 A predictive framework of community and ecosystem dynamics that applies
across systems has remained elusive, in part because non‐consumptive predator effects are …