Individual variation in feeding habitat use by adult female green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas): Are they obligately neritic herbivores?

Oecologia

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-64

  Hatase, Hideo ^a   Sato, Katsufumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Manami ^b   Takahashi, Kotaro ^b   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Ogasawara Marine Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Life history; Ontogenetic habitat shifts; Reptile; Satellite telemetry; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

ADULT; CARBON ISOTOPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITAT USE; HERBIVORE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; SATELLITE; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TELEMETRY; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TELEMETRY; TURTLE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; TELEMETRY; TURTLES;

ASIA; BONIN ISLANDS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33748557477     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0431-2     Document Type: Article

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