Satellite tracking reveals unusual diving characteristics for a marine reptile, the olive ridley turtle : Lepidochelys olivacea

By C. McMahon, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, G. Hays. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Bottom or midwater: alternative foraging behaviours in adult female loggerhead sea turtles (2007, background): “…Evans 2005a; Troëng et al., 2005b; Hawkes et al., 2006) or in similar areas without dive depth records (Horrocks et al., 2001; Dodd & Byles, 2003), although a recent study found that olive ridley turtles Lepidochelys olivacea showed similar deep dives to forage benthically (McMahon et al., 2007).”
Migration routes and foraging behaviour of olive ridley turtles Lepidochelys olivacea in northern Australia (2007, methodology): “The areas included one in the Gulf of Carpentaria, two in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, one near Cobourg Peninsula and two on the shelf-edge north of the Northern Territory.”
Multiple foraging strategies in a marine apex predator, the Galapagos sea lion Zalophus wollebaeki (2008, background): “…publisher Mar Ecol Prog Ser 363: 299–309, 2008 lions, sea turtles like loggerhead Caretta caretta and olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea and seabirds such as cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae) (Cooper 1986, Thompson et al. 1998, Costa & Gales 2000, 2003, HopkinsMurphy et al. 2003, McMahon et al. 2007).”
BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Fidelity to foraging sites, consistency of migration routes and habitat modulation of home range by sea turtles (2010, background): “This dichotomy has been revealed, for example, for loggerhead turtles in both the Northeast and Northwest Atlantic as well as olive ridley turtles in northern Australia (Hawkes et al., 2006; Hatase et al., 2007; Hawkes et al., 2007; McMahon et al., 2007) and green turtles off the Galapogos (Seminoff”
Important areas at sea for adult loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: satellite tracking corroborates findings from potentially biased sources (2008, background): “Satellite tracking of marine turtles has been used to identify migratory pathways and feeding grounds and to study behaviour in the foraging habitat (e.g. Godley et al. 2002a; Godley et al. 2002b; Troëng et al. 2005; Hays et al. 2006; Myers and Hays 2006; McMahon et al. 2007).”
Behavioural polymorphism in one of the world’s largest populations of loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta (2010, background): “…olivacea is a generalist exhibiting a somewhat intermediary behaviour — with adults capable of foraging benthically in relatively deep neritic water (McMahon et al. 2007) — but is shown to also inhabit shallow coastal and the open oceanic environment (Polovina et al. 2004, Whiting et al. 2007).”
Why do Argos satellite tags deployed on marine animals stop transmitting (2007, methodology): “We also attached SRDLs to four olive ridley turtles in northern Australia and tracked their postnesting movements (McMahon et al., 2007).”
Satellite tracking of sea turtles: Where have we been and where do we go next? (2008, background): “Chelonian Conserv Biol 4:142–153 Limpus CJ, Miller JD, Parmenter CJ, Reimer D, McLachlan N, Webb R (1992) Migration of green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtles to and from Eastern Australian Rookeries.”
Leatherback turtles satellite-tagged in European waters (2008, methodology): “Two turtles were fitted with satellite tags (Satellite Relay Data Loggers, SRDLs, manufactured by the Sea Mammal Research Unit, St Andrews) close to Dingle (Daingean Uí Chúis) (52.24° N, 10.30° W) on the west coast of Ireland; 1 turtle in 2005 (T1), and 1 in 2006 (T2).”