Plastic and marine turtles: a review and call for research

SE Nelms, EM Duncan, AC Broderick… - ICES Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Plastic debris is now ubiquitous in the marine environment affecting a wide range of taxa,
from microscopic zooplankton to large vertebrates. Its persistence and dispersal throughout …

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 …

Global research priorities for sea turtles: informing management and conservation in the 21st century

M Hamann, MH Godfrey, JA Seminoff, K Arthur… - Endangered species …, 2010 - int-res.com
Over the past 3 decades, the status of sea turtles and the need for their protection to aid
population recovery have increasingly captured the interest of government agencies, non …

Climate change and marine turtles

LA Hawkes, AC Broderick, MH Godfrey… - Endangered Species …, 2009 - int-res.com
Marine turtles occupy a wide range of terrestrial and marine habitats, and many aspects of
their life history have been demonstrated to be closely tied to climatic variables such as …

Fidelity and over-wintering of sea turtles

AC Broderick, MS Coyne, WJ Fuller… - … of the Royal …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
While fidelity to breeding sites is well demonstrated in marine turtles, emerging knowledge
of migratory routes and key foraging sites is of limited conservation value unless levels of …

Ingestion of marine debris by loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in the Adriatic Sea

B Lazar, R Gračan - Marine pollution bulletin, 2011 - Elsevier
We examined the occurrence of marine debris in the gastrointestinal tract of 54 loggerhead
sea turtles (Caretta caretta) found stranded or incidentally captured dead by fisheries in the …

Biodiversity Research: fidelity to foraging sites, consistency of migration routes and habitat modulation of home range by sea turtles

G Schofield, VJ Hobson, S Fossette… - Diversity and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Resources can shape patterns of habitat utilization. Recently a broad foraging
dichotomy between oceanic and coastal sites has been revealed for loggerhead sea turtles …

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 …

Foraging ecology of loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta in the central Mediterranean Sea: evidence for a relaxed life history model

P Casale, G Abbate, D Freggi, N Conte… - Marine Ecology …, 2008 - int-res.com
In the central Mediterranean Sea, gut contents and feces of 95 turtles captured by bottom
trawlers and pelagic longliners fishing in neritic and oceanic areas, respectively, were …

Satellite tracking reveals a dichotomy in migration strategies among juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Northwest Atlantic

KL Mansfield, VS Saba, JA Keinath, JA Musick - Marine Biology, 2009 - Springer
Few data are available on the movements and behavior of immature Atlantic loggerhead
sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from their seasonal neritic foraging grounds within the western …