Shifting the life-history paradigm: Discovery of novel habitat use by hawksbill turtles

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-56

  Gaos, Alexander R ^a,b   Lewison, Rebecca L ^a   Yañez, Ingrid L ^b   Wallace, Bryan P ^c,d   Liles, Michael J ^b,e   Nichols, Wallace J ^f   Baquero, Andres ^g,h   Hasbún, Carlos R ⁱ   Vasquez, Mauricio ^j   Urteaga, José ^k   Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^l  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Eastern Pacific Hawksbill Initiative   (United States)

^c Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^g Fundacion Equilibrio Azul   (Ecuador)

^h UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO   (Ecuador)

ⁱ UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^j University of El Salvador   (El Salvador)

^k FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^l NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Eastern Pacific; Estuary; Habitat use; Hawksbill; Life history; Mangroves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COASTAL ZONE; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT USE; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MANGROVE; PARADIGM SHIFT; RADIOTELEMETRY; SUBSTRATE; SWAMP FOREST; TRACKING; TURTLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

ANTHOZOA; CHELONIIDAE; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84856244314     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0603     Document Type: Article

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