Turtles on the edge: movement of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) along oceanic fronts, spanning longline fishing grounds in the central North Pacific, 1997–1998

By J. Polovina, D. Kobayashi, D. Parker, M. Seki, G. Balazs. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. G. Hays
2. Bj Godley
3. Lucy A. Hawkes
4. AC Broderick
5. Michael S. Coyne
6. C. Limpus
7. P. Luschi
8. P. Casale

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. G. Hays
2. Bj Godley
3. P. Casale
4. AC Broderick
5. P. Luschi
6. Lucy A. Hawkes
7. Michael S. Coyne
8. C. Limpus

Citations in the corpus

• Satellite telemetry of marine megavertebrates: the coming of age of an experimental science (2009, background): “…satellite telemetry into an operational science that allows researchers to investigate the association of marine megavertebrates with ocean processes at multiple spatial scales (10s to 1000s of km; e.g. Polovina et al. 2000, Rodary et al. 2000, Guinet et al. 2001, Hyrenbach et al. 2002).”
• Western Mediterranean immature loggerhead turtles: habitat use in spring and summer assessed through satellite tracking and aerial surveys (2005, background): “Indeed, previous research in other oceans suggested that the movements of juvenile loggerhead turtles with an SCL of about 40–50 cm may be tightly linked to frontal systems, along the continental slope (Witzel 1999) or in the open ocean (Polovina et al. 2000).”
• Estimating the odds of survival and identifying mitigation opportunities for common bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries (2009, background): “Research on post-release mortality or behavioural effects of capture on large pelagic species using satellite tags has, thus far, been limited to a few species (Polovina et al., 2000; Chaloupka et al., 2004; Horodysky and Graves, 2005; Moyes et al., 2006).”
• Revisiting the ontogenetic shift paradigm: The case of juvenile green turtles in the SW Atlantic (2012, methodology): “The method also allows tracking animals across entire ocean basins (e.g. Luschi et al., 1998; Polovina et al., 2000).”
• Life history of the neon flying squid: effect of the oceanographic regime in the North Pacific Ocean (2009, background): “This contour coincides approximately with the 20°C SST front (Polovina et al. 2000), which is moderately productive (i.e. less productive than the TZCF, but more productive than the STD; Polovina et al. 2000, Seki et al. 2002).”
• A biologist's guide to assessing ocean currents: a review (2012, background): “The effects of geostrophic currents (velocity and direction) on animal movements have been investigated in several marine species (e.g. Polovina et al. 2000, Horrocks et al. 2001, Ream et al. 2005, Seminoff et al. 2008, Godley et al. 2010).”
• Large‐scale movements and high‐use areas of western Pacific leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea (2011, methodology): “We obtained a suite of habitat variables that have previously been linked to the distribution of marine turtles (e.g., Polovina et al. 2000, 2001, 2004, Shillinger et al. 2008), including bathymetric depth, sea surface temperature (SST), Chlorophyll-a concentration (CHL), sea surface height (SSH)…”
• Near real‐time spatial management based on habitat predictions for a longline bycatch species (2006, background): “Without the ocean models, habitat predictions and subsequent spatial management options would be restricted to static closures (e.g. Goodyear 1999), or surface identification of habitat features (e.g. Polovina et al. 2000; Zagaglia & Stech 2004).”
• The stomach contents of post-hatchling green and loggerhead sea turtles in the southwest Pacific: an insight into habitat association (2008, background): “An association of pelagic loggerhead turtles with oceanic frontal systems has also been reported by recent satellite tracking studies in the northern PaciWc Ocean ( Polovina et al. 2000, 2003, 2006 ) which suggest the importance of features that concentrate food resources for pelagic turtles foragin”
• Reducing sea turtle interactions in the Hawaii-based longline swordfish fishery (2007, methodology): “Turtle abundance is likely to change by area for each season of different years, as turtle abundance is correlated with the location of large-scale oceanographic features and short-lived hydrographic features such as eddies and fronts (Hyrenbach et al., 2000; Kleiber and Boggs, 2000; Polovina et al”
• A model of area fidelity, nomadism, and distribution patterns of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean Sea (2007, background): “First they prey upon epipelagic animals in the oceanic zone (Bjorndal 1997; Bolten 2003) and in this stage they can disperse through a wide area, crossing entire oceans like the Atlantic and the PaciWc, where their distribution is aVected by oceanographic features like gyre systems and oceanic front”
• Satellite tracking reveals a dichotomy in migration strategies among juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Northwest Atlantic (2009, background): “Chlorophyll concentrations are important variables associated with habitat use and feeding behavior among juvenile loggerheads in the PaciWc ( Polovina et al. 2000; Kobayashi et al. 2008).”
• Young sea turtles of the pelagic Sargassum-dominated drift community: habitat use, population density, and threats (2012, background): “The distribution of juvenile sea turtles in the open sea is reasoned to match the patchy, widely scattered, and spatiotemporally dynamic distribution of the resources they depend on (Polovina et al. 2000).”
• Migration of green turtles Chelonia mydas from Tortuguero, Costa Rica (2005, unknown): “Oceanographic processes such as fronts, currents and eddies are known to influence the movements of loggerhead (Polovina et al. 2000) and leatherback turtles (Luschi et al. 2003a).”