Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Discrimination and Turnover in Pond Sliders Trachemys Scripta: Insights for Trophic Study of Freshwater Turtles

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Ontogenetic changes in diet and habitat use in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) life history (2008, background): “The only study to assess tissue turnover rates in reptiles was conducted on freshwater pond sliders Trachemys scripta (Seminoff et al. 2007) and, given the metabolic differences associated with osmoregulation (Bentley 1976), these values cannot be extrapolated to marine turtles.”
The diet composition of immature loggerheads: Insights on trophic niche, growth rates, and fisheries interactions (2009, background): “The turnover rate of blood plasma is among the fastest of any tissue (Hobson, 1999; Seminoff et al., 2007; Reich et al., 2008); therefore, isotopic signatures of plasma tend to reflect consumer diets integrated over relatively short time periods (e.”
Diversity in trophic interactions of green sea turtles Chelonia mydas on a relatively pristine coastal foraging ground (2011, unknown): “Although not studied in green turtles, muscle tissue of pond slider turtles Trachemys scripta took hundreds of days to turnover (Seminoff et al. 2007).”
Stable isotopes confirm a foraging dichotomy in juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (2010, background): “Such decoupling of carbon and nitrogen incorporation rates has been reported in other isotope studies, but is not well understood (Seminoff et al., 2007; Reich et al., 2007; Arthur et al., 2008).”