Selective feeding in the hawksbill turtle, an important predator in coral reef ecosystems

By Y. León, K. Bjorndal. 2002

243 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. AC Broderick
2. Bj Godley
3. M. Hamann
4. Sebastian Tröeng
5. Matthew H. Godfrey
6. A. Bolten
7. K. Bjorndal
8. J. Blumenthal

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Bj Godley
2. AC Broderick
3. G. Hays
4. K. Bjorndal
5. Sebastian Tröeng
6. M. Hamann
7. A. Bolten
8. Matthew H. Godfrey

Citations in the corpus

• Nutrient Fluxes and Ecological Functions of Coral Reef Sponges in a Changing Ocean (2017, background): “In fact, several Caribbean coral reefs have been increasingly referred to as “sponge reefs” (León and Bjorndal 2002; Norström et al.”
• Migration of hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata from Tortuguero, Costa Rica (2005, background): “Hawksbill turtles are still caught in many countries in the Caribbean ( Lagueux 1998, Meylan and Donnelly 1999), with Cuba currently permitting the largest legal catch of 500 hawksbill turtles per year (Carrillo et al. 1999).”
• Plastic and marine turtles: a review and call for research (2016, background): “Hawksbills, although omnivorous, prefer to consume sponges and algae, acting as important trophic regulators on coral reefs (León and Bjorndal, 2002).”
• Hawksbill sea turtles in seagrass pastures: success in a peripheral habitat (2010, background): “In the Atlantic, hawksbills feed primarily on sponges, corallimorpharians, and zoanthids (Meylan 1988; León and Bjorndal 2002; Blumenthal et al. 2009).”
• Ecology of Hawksbill Turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, on a Western Caribbean Foraging Ground (2009, background): “Studies of hawksbill habitat use and behavior on foraging grounds may also elucidate ecological roles (León and Bjorndal 2002) and susceptibility to threats.”
• Sex-specific migration patterns of hawksbill turtles breeding at Mona Island, Puerto Rico (2008, background): “With Caribbean hawksbill turtles primarily spongivorous (Meylan 1988, Van Dam & Diez 1997, León & Bjorndal 2002), high turtle population densities must have exerted a level of control over prey sponge species to a far greater degree than is perceived at present.”
• Pelagic habitat characterization of loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in the North Pacific Ocean (1997–2006): Insights from satellite tag tracking and remotely sensed data (2008, background): “Quite often, multiple indices are calculated and contrasted (e.g., Brodeur, 1998; Govoni et al., 1986; León and Bjorndal, 2002).”