Energy budget calculations indicate resource limitation in Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 318, Issue , 2006, Pages 263-270

  Wallace, Bryan P ^a,c   Kilham, Susan S ^a   Paladino, Frank V ^b   Spotila, James R ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Energy budgets; Leatherback turtles; Population dynamics; Resource limitation

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENERGY BUDGET; LIFE HISTORY; NESTLING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

ANIMALIA; DERMOCHELYIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33745593011     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps318263     Document Type: Article

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