Demographic implications of alternative foraging strategies in juvenile loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta of the North Pacific Ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 425, Issue , 2011, Pages 269-280

  Peckham, S Hoyt ^a,b   Maldonado Diaz, David ^a   Tremblay, Yann ^b,c   Ochoa, Ruth ^a,d   Polovina, Jeffrey ^e   Balazs, George ^e   Dutton, Peter H ^f   Nichols, Wallace J ^g  

^a Grupo Tortuguero de Las Californias   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^e PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Diet; Habitat use; Juvenile; Migration; Ontogeny; Utilization distributions

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; FECUNDITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ONTOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79952662940     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08995     Document Type: Article

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