Nutritional composition of marine plants in the diet of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the Hawaiian Islands

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-71

  McDermid, Karla J ^a   Stuercke, Brooke ^a,b   Balazs, George H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT; SEAGRASS; SEAWEED; TURTLE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; CHLOROPHYTA; MYDAS; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PTEROCLADIELLA CAPILLACEA; RHIZOCLONIUM IMPLEXUM; RHODOPHYTA; TESTUDINES; ULVA FLEXUOSA;

EID: 34547628744     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Abbott, I. A. 1999. Marine red algae of the Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 477 p.
2. _ and J. M. Huisman. 2004. The marine green and brown algae of the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, xi + 259 p.
3. Arthur, K. E. 2005. Ecotoxicology of the cyanobacterium (Lyngbya majuscula) and health implications for green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). Ph.D. Diss., Univ. Queensland, Australia, 223 p.
4. th ed. AOAC, Washington, D.C.
5. Balazs, G. H. 1980. Synopsis of biological data on the green turtle in the Hawaiian Islands. U.S. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFC-7, 141 p.
6. _. 1982. Growth rates of immature green turtles in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Pages 117-125 in K. A. Bjorndal, ed. Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, D.C.
7. _ and M. Chaloupka. 2004a. Spatial and temporal variability in somatic growth of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) resident in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Mar. Biol. 145: 1043-1059.
8. _ and _. 2004b. Thirty-year recovery trend in the once depleted Hawaiian green sea turtle stock. Biol. Conserv. 117: 491-498.
9. _, R. G. Forsyth, and A. K. H. Kam. 1987. Preliminary assessment of habitat utilization by Hawaiian green turtles in their resident foraging pastures. U.S. Dept. Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SWFSC-71, 107 p.
10. Bjorndal, K. A. 1980. Nutrition and grazing behavior of the green turtle Chelonia mydas. Mar. Biol. 56: 147-154.
11. _. 1982. The consequences of herbivory for the life history pattern of the Caribbean green turtle, Chelonia mydas. Pages 111-116 in K. A. Bjorndal, ed. Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press; Washington D.C.
12. _. 1985. Nutritional ecology of sea turtles. Copeia 3: 736-751.
13. _. 1996. Foraging ecology and nutrition of sea turtles. Pages 199-231 in P. L. Lutz and J. A. Musick, eds. The biology of sea turtles. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
14. _, A. B. Bolten, and M. Y. Chaloupka. 2000. Green turtle somatic growth model: evidence for density dependence. Ecol. Appl. 10: 269-282.
15. Broderick, A. C., B. J. Godley, and G. C. Hays. 2001. Trophic status drives interannual variability in nesting numbers of marine turtles. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., B 268: 1481-1487.
16. Burkholder P. R., L. M. Burkholder, and L. R. Almodovar. 1971. Nutritive constituents of some Caribbean marine algae. Bot. Mar. 14: 132-135.
17. Carefoot, T. H. 1985. Calorimetry. Pages 479-491 in M. M. Littler and D. S. Littler, eds. Handbook of phycological methods ecological field methods: macroalgae. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
18. Chaloupka, M., C. Limpus, and J. Miller. 2004. Green turtle somatic growth dynamics in a spatially disjunct Great Barrier Reef metapopulation. Coral Reefs 23: 325-335.
19. Chan, J. C. C., P. C. Cheung, and P. O. Ang Jr. 1997. Comparative studies on the effect of three drying methods on the nutritional composition of seaweed Sargassum hemiphyllum (Turn.) C. Ag. J. Agric. Food Chem. 45: 3056-3059.
20. Dawes, C. J. 1986. Seasonal proximate constituents and caloric values in seagrasses and algae on the west coast of Florida. J. Coast. Res. 2: 25-32.
21. _ and J. M. Lawrence. 1983. Proximate composition and caloric content of seagrasses. Mar. Tech. Soc. J. 17: 53-58.
22. _, C. S. Lobban, and D. A. Tomasko. 1989. A comparison of the physiological ecology of the seagrasses Halophila decipiens Ostenfeld and H. johnsonii Eiseman from Florida. Aquat. Bot. 33: 149-154.
23. _, M. Chan, R. Chinn, E. W. Koch, A. Lazar, and D. Tomasko. 1987. Proximate composition, photosynthetic and respiratory responses of the seagrass Halophila engelmannii from Florida. Aquat. Bot. 27: 195-201.
24. Dubois, M., F. A. Gilles, J. K. Hamilton, P. A. Rebers, and F. Smith. 1956. Colorimetric method for the determination of sugars and related substances. Analyt. Chem. 28: 350-356.
25. nd Symp. Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-503.
26. Folch, J., M. Lees, and G. H. Sloan-Stanley. 1957. A simple method for the isolation and purification of total lipids from animal tissues. J. Biol. Chem. 226: 497-507.
27. Forbes, G. A. 1996. The diet and feeding ecology of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in an algal-based coral reef community. Ph.D. Diss., James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia. 340 p.
28. Garnett, S. T., I. R. Price, and F. J. Scott. 1985. The diet of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas (L.), in Torres Strait. Aust. Wildl. Res. 12: 103-112.
29. Harrison, P. J. and T. E. Thomas. 1988. Biomass measurements: protein determination. Pages 27-34 in C. S. Lobban, D. J. Chapman, and B. P. Kremer eds. Experimental phycology: a laboratory manual. Cambridge Scientific Press, New York.
30. Kennish, R. and G. A. Williams. 1997. Feeding preferences of the herbivorous crab Grapsus albolineatus: the differential influence of algal nutrient content and morphology. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 147: 87-95.
31. Limpus, C. J. and N. Nichols. 1988. The southern oscillation regulates the annual numbers of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) breeding around Northern Australia. Austr. Wildl. Res. 15: 157-161.
32. Lowry, O. H., N. J. Rosebrough, A. L. Farr, and R. J. Randall. 1951. Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent. J. Biol. Chem. 193: 265-275.
33. McDermid, K. J. and B. Stuercke. 2003. Nutritional composition of edible Hawaiian seaweeds. J. Appl. Phycol. 15: 513-524.
34. _ and O. J. Haleakala. 2005. Total dietary fiber content in Hawaiian marine algae. Bot. Mar. 48: 437-440.
35. Mendonça, M. T. 1983. Movements and feeding ecology of immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in a Florida lagoon. Copeia 1983: 1013-1023.
36. Montgomery, W. L. and S. D. Gerking. 1980. Marine macroalgae as food for fishes: an evaluation of potential food quality. Environ. Biol. Fish. 5: 143-153.
37. Mortimer, J. A. 1981. The feeding ecology of the West Caribbean green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Nicaragua. Biotropica 13: 49-58.
38. _. 1982. Feeding ecology of sea turtles. Pages 103-109 in K. A. Bjorndal, ed. Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.
39. Robledo, D. and Y. Freile Pelegrin. 1997. Chemical and mineral composition of six potentially edible seaweed species of Yucatán. Bot. Mar. 40: 301-306.
40. _ and _. 1994a. Colonization by the alien marine alga Hypnea musci formis (Wulfen) J. Ag. (Rhodophyta: Gigartinales) in the Hawaiian Islands and its utilization by the green turtle, Chelonia mydas L. Aquat. Bot. 47: 53-60.
41. Russell, D. J. and G. H. Balazs. 1994b. Utilization of alien algal species by sea turtles in Hawaii. Pages 93-96 in Nonindigenous estuarine and marine organisms (NEMO). Proc. Conf. Workshop, Seattle, WA, April 20-23, 1993.
42. _ and _. 2000. Identification manual for dietary vegetation of the Hawaiian Green Turtle Chelonia mydas. NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM NMFS-SWFSC-294, 49 p.
43. _, R. C. Phillips, and A. K. H. Kam. 2003. Discovery of the sea grass Halophila decipiens (Hydrocharitaceae) in the diet of the Hawaiian green turtle, Chelonia mydas. Pac. Sci. 57: 393-397.
44. Seaborn, G. T., M. K. Moore, and G. H. Balazs. 2005. Depot fatty acid composition in immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) residing at two near-shore foraging areas in the Hawaiian Islands. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 140: 183-195.
45. Seminoff, J. A., A. Resendiz, and W. J. Nichols. 2002. Diet of East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Central Gulf of California, Mexico. J. Herpet. 36: 447-453.
46. Stuercke, B. and K. J. McDermid. 2004. Variation in algal turf composition and abundance on two Hawaiian shallow subtidal reefs. Cryptogamie Algol. 25: 353-365.
47. Thayer, G. W., D. W. Engel, and K. A. Bjorndal. 1982. Evidence for short-circuiting of the detritus cycle of seagrass beds by the green turtle, Chelonia mydas L. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 62: 173-183.
48. _, K. A. Bjorndal, J. C. Ogden, S. L. Williams, and J. C. Zieman. 1984. Role of larger herbivores in seagrass communities. Estuaries 7: 351-376.
49. Vicente, V. P., J. A. Arroyo-Aguihi, and J. A. Rivera. 1980. Thalassia as a food source: importance and potential in the marine and terrestrial environments. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico, 64: 107-120.
50. Wong, K. H. and P. C. K. Cheung. 2000. Nutritional evaluation of some subtropical red and green seaweeds Part 1-proximate composition, amino acid profiles and some physicochemical properties. Food Chem. 71: 475-482.
51. Wood, F. E. and J. R. Wood. 1977a. Quantitative requirement of the hatchling green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, for valine, leucine, isoleucine, and phenylalanine. J. Nutr. 107: 1502-1506.
52. Wood, J. R. and F. E. Wood. 1977b. Quantitative requirements of the hatchling green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, for lysine, tryptophan, and methionine. J. Nutr. 107: 171-175.
53. _ and _. 1980. Reproductive biology of captive green sea turtles Chelonia mydas. Am. Zool. 20: 499-505.
54. _ and _. 1981. Growth and digestibility for the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) fed diets containing varying protein levels. Aquaculture 25: 269-274.
55. Zemke-White, W. L. and K. D. Clements. 1999. Chlorophyte and rhodophyte starches as factors in diet choice by marine herbivorous fish. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 240: 137-149.
56. Zug, G. R., G. H. Balazs, J. A. Wetherall, D. M. Parker, and S. K. K. Murakawa. 2001. Age and growth of Hawaiian green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas): an analysis based on skeletochronology. Fish. Bull. 100: 117-127.