First satellite tracks of neonate sea turtles redefine the 'lost years' oceanic niche

KL Mansfield, J Wyneken… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Few at-sea behavioural data exist for oceanic-stage neonate sea turtles, a life-stage
commonly referred to as the sea turtle 'lost years'. Historically, the long-term tracking of …

First Atlantic satellite tracks of 'lost years' green turtles support the importance of the Sargasso Sea as a sea turtle nursery

KL Mansfield, J Wyneken, J Luo - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In-water behaviour and long-term movements of oceanic-stage juvenile sea turtles are not
well described or quantified. This is owing to technological or logistical limitations of tracking …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Oceanic habits and habitats

KL Mansfield, NF Putman - Biology of sea turtles, 2013 - books.google.com
Like other cheloniid sea turtle species, loggerheads (Caretta caretta) are long-lived, late-
maturing animals. Loggerheads spend the majority of their lives in a marine environment …

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 …

Variation in sea turtle life history patterns: neritic vs. oceanic developmental stages

AB Bolten, PL Lutz, JA Musick… - The biology of sea …, 2003 - books.google.com
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 …

Sea turtles: a review of some key recent discoveries and remaining questions

GC Hays - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2008 - Elsevier
This review highlights some recent important developments in our understanding of the
physiological, behavioural and molecular ecology of sea turtles as well as their conservation …

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 …