Inferring Foraging Areas of Nesting Loggerhead Turtles Using Satellite Telemetry and Stable Isotopes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ceriani, Simona A ^a   Roth, James D ^b   Evans, Daniel R ^c   Weishampel, John F ^a   Ehrhart, Llewellyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c Sea Turtle Conservancy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORAGING; MIGRATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SATELLITE TELEMETRY; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELEMETRY; TURTLE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; TELEMETRY; TURTLES;

CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84866640558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045335     Document Type: Article

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