Site specialists, diet generalists? Isotopic variation, site fidelity, and foraging by loggerhead turtles in Shark Bay, Western Australia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 453, Issue , 2012, Pages 213-226

  Thomson, Jordan A ^a   Heithaus, Michael R ^a   Burkholder, Derek A ^a   Vaudo, Jeremy J ^a   Wirsing, Aaron J ^b   Dill, Lawrence M ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal borne video; Foraging ecology; Individual specialization; Marine turtle; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DIET; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENERALIST; HABITAT USE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NESTING; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIALIST; STABLE ISOTOPE; TURTLE;

AUSTRALIA; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRICHTHYES; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84861060172     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09637     Document Type: Article

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