Variation in Sea Turtle Life History Patterns: Neritic vs. Oceanic Developmental Stages

By A. Bolten. 2002

458 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Parasitology

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In Ecology

1. M. Chaloupka
2. C. Limpus
3. K. Bjorndal
4. G. Balazs
5. A. Bolten
6. Sebastian Tröeng
7. G. Hays
8. K. Arthur

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Chaloupka
2. C. Limpus
3. G. Hays
4. K. Bjorndal
5. Sebastian Tröeng
6. A. Bolten
7. G. Balazs
8. P. Luschi

In Parasitology

1. M. Chaloupka
2. C. Limpus
3. M. C. Boyle
4. K. Arthur
5. G. Balazs
6. K. Bjorndal
7. P. Luschi
8. P. Casale

Citations in the corpus

• A Comparison of Immature Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Diets among Seven Sites in the Main Hawaiian Islands1 (2008, background): “Immature green turtles recruit to these inshore foraging habitats at @35 cm straight carapace length (SCL) and @6 kg (Zug et al. 2002) where their diet shifts from the omnivorous planktivory of a pelagic turtle to the herbivorous diet of an inshore immature turtle (Bolten 2003).”
• Overwintering behaviour in sea turtles: dormancy is optional (2007, background): “The fact that some of the smaller turtles stayed close to the release site (and, thus, the original capture site) indicates that these were probably local neritic juveniles, which do not engage in extensive migrations as adult turtles do (Bentivegna 2002, Bolten 2003).”
• Evidence from genetic and Lagrangian drifter data for transatlantic transport of small juvenile green turtles (2010, background): “Green turtles, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), constitute such an example, exhibiting a complex life-history pattern with weak migratory connectivity (Bolten, 2003; Bolker et al., 2007; Bjorndal & Bolten, 2008).”
• Movement patterns of marine turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: a review (2014, background): “Very little information is available on the movements of younger turtles during their pelagic developmental phase (but see Kobayashi et al. 2008; Howell et al. 2010; Mansfield et al. 2014), when in fact it is believed that they move over large oceanic areas (Bolten 2003).”
• The stomach contents of post-hatchling green and loggerhead sea turtles in the southwest Pacific: an insight into habitat association (2008, background): “turtle (Natator depressus), the post-hatchling stage of a sea turtle’s life history is pelagic and oceanic (Bolten 2003).”
• Encouraging outlook for recovery of a once severely exploited marine megaherbivore (2008, background): “Very little is known about the abundance of green turtles in the post-hatchling oceanic phase prior to recruitment as juveniles to a range of neritic or coastal and coral reef foraging habitats (Bolten, 2003).”
• Using gut contents to assess foraging patterns of juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas in the Paranaguá Estuary, Brazil (2011, background): “During the pelagic phase, post-hatchlings and young juveniles develop an opportunistic feeding strategy, preying on planktonic organisms which often aggregate at frontal zones (Bolten 2003).”
• Ontogenetic changes in diet and habitat use in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) life history (2008, methodology): “…green turtles and the later life stages is accompanied by a change in feeding behavior that entails a shift from an omnivorous diet of neustonic material to one of predominant herbivory, consisting of macroalgae, seagrass and/or mangrove material (Bjorndal 1997, Limpus & Limpus 2000, Bolten 2003).”