Since turtles cannot talk: What beak movement sensors can tell us about the feeding ecology of neritic loggerhead turtles, Caretta caretta

Marine Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-333

  Hochscheid, Sandra ^a   Travaglini, Andrea ^a   Maffucci, Fulvio ^a   Hays, Graeme C ^b   Bentivegna, Flegra ^a  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data logging telemetry; Dive behaviour; Intake rate; Prey selection; Turtle diet

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SELECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INGESTION RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOLLUSC; MOVEMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TURTLE;

ITALY;

ANIMALIA; BRACHYURA; BRACHYURAN; CARETTA CARETTA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LIOCARCINUS VERNALIS; MOLLUSCA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84882815779     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12018     Document Type: Article

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