Prey landscapes help identify potential foraging habitats for leatherback turtles in the NE Atlantic

By MJ Witt, AC Broderick, David Johns, C. Martin, R. Penrose, M. Hoogmoed, Bj Godley. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Home on the range: spatial ecology of loggerhead turtles in Atlantic waters of the USA (2011, methodology): “Accordingly, we can now describe habitat use of many species in multiple dimensions – through time and horizontal and vertical planes (Brischoux et al., 2007), thermal and dynamic environments (Ream et al., 2005; Lambardi et al., 2008) and prey fields (Friedlaender et al., 2006, Witt et al., 2007a).”
Migratory corridors and foraging hotspots: critical habitats identified for Mediterranean green turtles (2015, methodology): “…and leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) turtles, habitat modelling may be used to predict spatio-temporal probability of species occurrence (see Witt et al., 2007; Panigada et al., 2008; Zydelis et al., 2011) to reduce heavy crossover with fisheries (Howell et al., 2008; Hobday et al., 2010,…”
Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species. (2009, background): “Consequently, good foraging areas at the edge of their current range, for example the north-eastern Atlantic (Houghton et al. 2006, Witt et al. 2007), may be increasingly occupied in the future.”
Leatherback turtles satellite-tagged in European waters (2008, background): “Whether this same scenario applies to the seas off northern Europe has yet to be empirically established, yet leatherbacks have been historically sighted in this area for the past 200 yr (Brongersma 1972, Duguy et al. 1980, Houghton et al. 2006, Witt et al. 2007, King & Berrow in press).”
BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Fidelity to foraging sites, consistency of migration routes and habitat modulation of home range by sea turtles (2010, background): “For example, at neritic sites loggerheads would be expected to feed on benthic invertebrates, including crustaceans and molluscs, while in oceanic environments we might expect foraging on planktonic invertebrates, such as gelatinous animals (Hatase et al., 2007; Witt et al., 2007).”
Oceanic dispersal of juvenile leatherback turtles: going beyond passive drift modeling (2012, background): “Accordingly, the size of leatherbacks observed at sea exhibits a clear gradient with temperature and latitude (Eckert 2002, Witt et al. 2007).”
Satellite tracking of sea turtles: Where have we been and where do we go next? (2008, background): “In a recent analysis of a long-term data series of gelatinous zooplankton across the North Atlantic it became clear that areas used by leatherback turtles tracked in previous published studies were among the clear hotspots of potential prey (Witt et al. 2007).”
Spatio-temporal analysis of cetacean strandings and bycatch in a UK fisheries hotspot (2008, background): “…Wsheries observers (Tregenza et al. 1997; Berrow et al. 1998; Morizur et al. 1999; Silvani et al. 1999; López et al. 2003), data from public recording schemes are potentially biased at several levels including inter-annual, seasonal and spatial variation in recording eVort (Witt et al. 2006, 2007).”
Extension of methods for jellyfish and ctenophore trophic ecology to large-scale research (2008, methodology): “Collaborations between sea turtle and jellyfish researchers would produce important data for both (e.g., Houghton et al., 2006; Witt et al., 2007).”
Satellite tracking reveals a dichotomy in migration strategies among juvenile loggerhead turtles in the Northwest Atlantic (2009, background): “Similarly, in the northeast Atlantic, Witt et al. (2007) noted decreased leatherback sightings in the late fall and winter,”
Patterns of jellyfish abundance in the North Atlantic (2008, methodology): “2) is essentially similar to that reported by Witt et al. (2007) for both jellyfish and thaliaceans from the CPR survey over the same time period.”