Distribution, size range and growth rates of hawksbill turtles at a major foraging ground in the eastern Pacific Ocean

Natal foraging philopatry in eastern Pacific hawksbill turtles

The complex processes involved with animal migration have long been a subject of biological interest, and broad-scale movement patterns of many marine turtle populations still remain unresolved. While it is widely accepted that once marine turtles reach sexual maturity they home to natal areas for nesting or reproduction, the role of philopatry to natal areas during other life stages has receiv...

Opportunism on the High Seas: Foraging Ecology of Olive Ridley Turtles in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA, United States, 2 Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 3 Department of Geology and Geophysics, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai...

Heart rates and diving behavior of leatherback sea turtles in the eastern pacific ocean

Heart rates and diving behavior of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) were monitored at sea during the internesting interval. Instruments that recorded the electrocardiogram and the depth and duration of dives were deployed on six female leatherback turtles as they laid eggs at Playa Grande, Costa Rica. Turtles dived continually for the majority of the internesting interval and spen...

Conservation Status of Hawksbill Turtles in the Wider Caribbean, Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Regions

Bycatch and Foraging Ecology of Sea Turtles in the Eastern Pacific

Bycatch and Foraging Ecology of Sea Turtles in the Eastern Pacific by Shaleyla Kelez Sara Department of Environment Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Larry B. Crowder, Supervisor ___________________________ Jeffrey A. Seminoff ___________________________ Patrick N. Halpin ___________________________ Scott A. Eckert An abstract of a dissertation s...