Leatherback turtles as oceanographic indicators: stable isotope analyses reveal a trophic dichotomy between ocean basins

By Bryan P. Wallace, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, S. Kilham, J. Spotila, P. Dutton. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. C. Limpus
2. K. Bjorndal
3. A. Bolten
4. Frederic Menard
5. Bj Godley
6. B. Popp
7. S. Bearhop
8. A. Lorrain

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. Limpus
2. K. Bjorndal
3. A. Bolten
4. Larisa Avens
5. Jeffrey A. Seminoff
6. Bj Godley
7. K. Arthur
8. M. Chaloupka

Citations in the corpus

• Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Nitrogen as Tracers for Paleo-Diet Reconstruction (2012, background): “lower than those within the Pacific system ( Wallace et al. 2006 ).”
• Identifying and comparing phases of movement by leatherback turtles using state-space models (2008, background): “It has been hypothesized that the longer interval between nesting years for Pacific than Atlantic leatherback turtles might be caused by resource limitation (Wallace et al., 2006a) and that foraging strategies may differ between the two ocean basins ( Wallace et al., 2006b ).”
• Nitrogen and carbon isotope values of individual amino acids: a tool to study foraging ecology of penguins in the Southern Ocean (2009, background): “Mar Ecol Prog Ser 391: 293–306, 2009 2007, Wallace et al. 2006 ).”
• Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Discrimination and Turnover in Pond Sliders Trachemys Scripta: Insights for Trophic Study of Freshwater Turtles (2007, background): “Within the Reptilia, these examinations have centered primarily on sea turtles (Godley et al., 1998; Hatase et al., 2002; Biasatti, 2004; Wallace et al., 2006), although lizards have been examined to a lesser extent (Magnusson et al., 2001; Struck et al., 2002).”
• Isotopic evidence of distinct feeding ecologies and movement patterns in two migratory predators (yellowfin tuna and swordfish) of the western Indian Ocean (2007, background): “…been shown to be 76 incorporated and conserved through several trophic levels (up to pelagic consumers) across 77 ocean basins (Takai et al. 2000; Wallace et al. 2006) or within a region of a single basin 78 (Schell et al. 1989; Lesage et al. 2001; Quillfeldt et al. 2005; Cherel and Hobson 2005,…”
• The diet composition of immature loggerheads: Insights on trophic niche, growth rates, and fisheries interactions (2009, background): “Stable isotope analyses (SIA) have been applied in several trophic ecology and physiology studies of marine turtles (e.g. Godley et al., 1998;Wallace et al., 2006; Reich et al., 2007).”
• Migratory dichotomy and associated phenotypic variation in marine turtles revealed by satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis (2011, background): “…insights into foraging ecology highlighting interspecific differences (Godley et al. 1998), intraspecific dichotomies (Hatase et al. 2002, 2006, Wallace et al. 2006, Caut et al. 2008, Reich et al. 2010) and developmental habitat shifts (Reich et al. 2007, Arthur et al. 2008, McClellan et al.…”
• Ontogenetic changes in diet and habitat use in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) life history (2008, background): “…2002, Hatase et al. 2006); the effect of diving physiology on bone isotopic composition in green, leatherback and olive ridley turtles (Biasatti 2004) and the identification of differences in nitrogen cycling regimes in oceanic basins based on leatherback isotopic signatures (Wallace et al. 2006).”