Underwater behaviour of green turtles monitored with video-time-depth recorders: What's missing from dive profiles?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 322, Issue , 2006, Pages 269-280

  Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^a   Jones, T Todd ^b   Marshall, Greg J ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Chelonia mydas; Crittercam; Dive type; Green turtle; Habitat use; VTDR

Indexed keywords

ALGA; DATA ACQUISITION; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; TURTLE; UNDERWATER CAMERA; VIDEOGRAPHY;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; CHELONIA MYDAS; INVERTEBRATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33750218576     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps322269     Document Type: Article

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