GREEN TURTLE SOMATIC GROWTH MODEL: EVIDENCE FOR DENSITY DEPENDENCE

By K. Bjorndal, A. Bolten, M. Chaloupka. 2000

382 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/41c4983f6dd75e5028e57a52c5c4a8ba4661a263

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

Citations in the corpus

Green turtle somatic growth dynamics in a spatially disjunct Great Barrier Reef metapopulation (2004, methodology): “Lower relative adult abundance might foster increased immature growth rates because of density-dependent growth behavior (Bjorndal et al. 2000), but density estimates for the foraging ground”
Population ecology of the green/black turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Bahía Magdalena, Mexico (2007, methodology): “2003b), the actual differences among a variety of growth models were rather small (Bjorndal et al. 2000).”
Habitat effect on hawksbill turtle growth rates on feeding grounds at Mona and Monito Islands, Puerto Rico (2002, positive): “In their analysis of somatic growth in green turtles of the southern Bahamas, Bjorndal et al. (2000) found evidence for an inverse relation between aggregation density and growth rates, while reporting a positive correlation between green turtle body CI and growth rates.”
Simulated green turtle grazing affects nutrient composition of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum (2007, background): “testudinum (Bjorndal 1982; Jackson 1997; Bjorndal et al. 2000) and certainly aVected the structure, nutrient composition, and productivity of seagrass ecosystems in the Caribbean (Bjorndal 1980; Ogden 1980; Thayer et al.”
EVALUATING TRENDS IN ABUNDANCE OF IMMATURE GREEN TURTLES, CHELONIA MYDAS, IN THE GREATER CARIBBEAN (2005, background): “Green turtles continue to move among neritic foraging grounds as they grow to sexual maturity, a process that requires decades (Bjorndal et al. 2000).”
Variation in adult annual survival probability and remigration intervals of sea turtles (2007, background): “In the Caribbean, adult green turtles feed mainly on turtle grass Thalassia testudinum (Mortimer 1981) that may be nutritionally superior to algae which dominates in the food intake of Pacific green turtles (Hirth 1997).”
Is climate change affecting the population dynamics of the endangered Pacific loggerhead sea turtle (2008, background): “However, our analysis was limited to considering only density independent climate affects on abundance but it has been shown that marine turtle demography is also density dependent (Bjorndal et al., 2000; Chaloupka and Balazs, 2007).”
Ontogeny in marine tagging and tracking science: technologies and data gaps (2012, background): “…simple tags supported the first mark and recapture studies identifying movements and home ranges of many taxonomic groups, and eventually allowed measurements of demographic parameters such as growth rates and age of maturity (e.g. Bjorndal et al. 2000, Sibert & Nielsen 2001, Limpus & Limpus 2003).”
Migration of green turtles Chelonia mydas from Tortuguero, Costa Rica (2005, neutral): “The Tortuguero green turtle population is one of the largest in the world (Seminoff 2004), but green turtle abundance in the Caribbean remains relatively low in comparison with historical levels (Bjorndal et al. 2000; Jackson 1997).”
Survival probability estimates for immature green turtles Chelonia mydas in the Bahamas (2003, background): “Green turtles are long-lived and slow growing (Bjorndal et al. 2000, Chaloupka 2002).”
Delayed ontogenic dietary shift and high levels of omnivory in green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from the NW coast of Africa (2009, background): “However, it does suggest that any assessment of potential population size considering only plant foraging, as done for the Greater Caribbean ( Bjorndal et al. 2000; Bjorndal and Jackson 2003; Moran and Bjorndal 2005), would be simplistic.”
Ecology of Hawksbill Turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, on a Western Caribbean Foraging Ground (2009, methodology): “Measurements of mass and straight carapace length (SCL, measured from the center 106 of the nuchal notch to the tip of the posterior-most marginal scute) were used to 107 determine size distribution and calculate morphometric relationships (van Dam and 108 Diez 1998b), growth rate (Bjorndal and Bolt”
Hawksbill sea turtles in seagrass pastures: success in a peripheral habitat (2010, methodology): “At high green turtle densities, green turtle growth rates and condition indices were low because of depleted food resources, yielding a significant year effect on green turtle growth rates (Bjorndal et al. 2000).”
Estimation of age at maturation and growth of Atlantic green turtles (Chelonia mydas) using skeletochronology (2010, background): “Differences in growth rates could be related to the availability (Bjorndal et al. 2000) or quality of food (captive green turtles, Wood and Wood 1981), water temperatures (reviewed by Mrosovsky 1980), genetics, length of the growing season, or the energy expense associated with seasonal migrations.”