Diel vertical migration (DVM) by zooplankton is a universal feature in all the World's oceans,
as well as being common in freshwater environments. The normal pattern involves …

Remote measurement of the physiology, behaviour and energetic status of free-living
animals is made possible by a variety of techniques that we refer to collectively as …

Coelenterates (cnidaria and ctenophores) are well recognized as predators in food webs of
marine ecosystems but are less often considered as prey. This is partly because they are …

The movements and behavior of nine female leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys coriacea
(L.) were monitored for up to 370 days from their nesting beaches on the Caribbean island of …

The biology of the endangered leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) at sea is poorly
understood. As research has been almost exclusively limited to studies of nesting females …

Decompression sickness (DCS), as clinically diagnosed by reversal of symptoms with
recompression, has never been reported in aquatic breath-hold diving vertebrates despite …

For six green turtles, Chelonia mydas, that had nested on Ascension Island in the South
Atlantic, we used time–depth recorders to examine their diving behaviour during the …

We used Satellite Relay Data Loggers to obtain the first dive profiles for critically
endangered leatherback turtles outside the nesting season. As individuals moved from the …

Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has
grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the …

Quantification of metabolic rates (MR) is fundamental to understanding an individual
organism's physiology and life history, as well as overall population dynamics. Applications …