Abstract
Movements, connectivity, and space use of immature green turtles within coastal habitats of the Culebra Archipelago, Puerto Rico: implications for conservation
Highlights
The globally threatened green turtle Chelonia mydas relies on shallow neritic foraging grounds for up to multiple decades until reaching or nearing sexual maturity (Bjorndal et al 2000, Bolten 2003, Parker et al 2011)
The sizes of immature turtles may affect their home range sizes, with larger immature turtles using deeper open waters and smaller immature turtles using shallow protected bays (Seminoff et al 2003, Koch et al 2007, Bresette et al 2010). These studies suggest that immature green turtles inhabit well-defined habitats with high variability between home range sizes due to ecological differences in food and shelter resource availabilities and differences in body size (Makowski et al 2006, Lamont et al 2015)
While some individuals were detected outside their respective bays, no individual captured in Manglar Bay was ever detected within Tortuga Bay and vice versa for turtles captured from Tortuga Bay
Summary
The globally threatened green turtle Chelonia mydas relies on shallow neritic foraging grounds for up to multiple decades until reaching or nearing sexual maturity (Bjorndal et al 2000, Bolten 2003, Parker et al 2011). The sizes of immature turtles may affect their home range sizes, with larger immature turtles using deeper open waters and smaller immature turtles using shallow protected bays (Seminoff et al 2003, Koch et al 2007, Bresette et al 2010) Overall, these studies suggest that immature green turtles inhabit well-defined habitats with high variability between home range sizes due to ecological differences in food and shelter resource availabilities and differences in body size (Makowski et al 2006, Lamont et al 2015)
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