loggerhead turtles
Graphene for Preconcentration of Trace Amounts of Ni in Water and Paraffin-Embedded Tissues from Liver Loggerhead Turtles Specimens Prior to flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
... A new sensitive and simple method was developed for the preconcentration of trace amounts of Ni using 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (PAN) as chelating reagent prior to its determination by ûame atomic absorption ...
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The practical use of computed tomography in evaluation of shell lesions in six loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta
... in turtles, the final diagnosis is challenging due to superimposition of many anatomical ...in turtles minimises any possible artefacts caused by the movement of lungs (Gumpenberger ...female ...
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High resting metabolic rates with low thermal dependence induce active dives in overwintering Pacific juvenile loggerhead turtles
... Juvenile turtles tracked for more than 200 days in the western North Pacific conducted most dives (42,478 out of 46,669, ...juvenile turtles in the western North Pacific performed aerobic dives within the ...
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Sea turtles compensate deflection of heading at the sea surface during directional travel
... travelling turtles were mostly between 10 and 25m (Fig.6). Turtles probably selected the depth where they can attain neutral buoyancy to minimise the energy required for overcoming upward and/or downward ...
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Endangered species update, 19:2 (March/April 2002)
... of loggerhead turtles as support for their request for ...sea turtles, with warmer temperatures yielding more females; thus the northern popu- lation contributes 65% of male ...U.S. loggerhead ...
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The ontogenetic scaling of bite force and head size in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): implications for durophagy in neritic, benthic habitats
... systems. Loggerhead sea turtles are long-lived vertebrates with complex life histories that are marked by an ontogenetic shift from an oceanic habitat to a coastal neritic habitat, and a transition from ...
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When surfacers do not dive: multiple significance of extended surface times in marine turtles
... Marine turtles spend more than 90% of their life underwater and have been termed surfacers as opposed to ...Nonetheless turtles have been reported occasionally to float motionless at the surface but the ...
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Spatial ecology and conservation of sea turtles in coastal foraging habitat
... on turtles’ behaviour in their foraging habitats, and resultant applications for conservation ...and loggerhead turtles foraging in the coastal waters of eastern Australia, objectively quantified ...
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Spatial distribution and residency of green and loggerhead sea turtles using coastal reef habitats in southern Mozambique
... (SWIO) loggerhead (Caretta caretta) populations, oceanic and neritic foraging behaviors have been shown in late stage juveniles (Dalleau et ...post-nesting turtles from South Africa (Schroeder et ...adult ...
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Activity, not submergence, explains diving heart rates of captive loggerhead sea turtles
... two turtles, with one electrode implanted in the neck near the left edge of the carapace and the other in the skin below the carapace and above the right rear ...two turtles in 2013, one electrode was ...
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Post-hatchling sea turtle biology
... to loggerhead turtles in the northern Atlantic Ocean and northern Pacific ...sea turtles for many regions of the ...of loggerhead and green post-hatchling sea turtles in the southwest ...
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Orientation of hatchling loggerhead sea turtles to regional magnetic fields along a transoceanic migratory pathway
... Young loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta ) from the east coast of Florida, USA, undertake a transoceanic migration around the North Atlantic Gyre, the circular current system that flows around the ...
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Bahamas connection: residence areas selected by breeding female loggerheads tagged in Dry Tortugas National Park, USA
... We used switching state-space modeling [40,44] to esti- mate location and differentiate between migration and area-restricted search (ARS; to represent residence areas and inter-nesting) movements of loggerhead ...
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Changes of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) dive behavior associated with tropical storm passage during the inter nesting period
... The loggerhead turtle ( Caretta caretta ) is listed as threatened under the US Federal Endangered and Threatened Species Act of 1977 and the North West Atlantic subpopulation is International Union for ...
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The effect of biologging systems on reproduction, growth and survival of adult sea turtles
... and loggerhead tur- ...green turtles is likely due to targeted sampling of remigrant females in preference for some ...green turtles. By contrast, sampling for loggerhead turtles aimed ...
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Post-hatchling sea turtle biology
... pelagic loggerhead turtle aggregations at the Azores and Madeira was investigated with genetic techniques by Bowen et ...the turtles sampled were from northwest Atlantic ...Atlantic loggerhead ...
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Magnetic navigation behavior and the oceanic ecology of young loggerhead sea turtles
... hatchling loggerhead turtles to five different magnetic fields that exist at different locations along or near the turtles ’ migratory route in the North ...which turtles were exposed exist on ...
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Perception of airborne odors by loggerhead sea turtles
... Sea turtles are known to detect chemical cues, but in contrast to most marine animals, turtles surface to breathe and thus potentially have access to olfactory cues both in air and in ...sea turtles ...
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Pharmacokinetics of oxytetracycline in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after single intravenous and intramuscular injections
... non-i.v. route are calculated as CL/F and VD/F, re- spectively, they were compared with the i.v. route in this analysis because nearly complete absorption was assumed (that is, the value of F approached 100%.) Although ...
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Pharmacokinetics of florfenicol in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after single intravenous and intramuscular injections
... A rapid and accurate HPLC analysis for detec- tion of florfenicol in plasma of sea turtles using a single sample volume of 100 m l was developed. In three animals there was no detectable florfenicol in any ...
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