Seasonal movements between foraging, breeding, and overwintering sites occur in a wide
variety of reptile species. Terrestrial snakes, lizards, and turtles migrate short distances (< 20 …

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

Marine turtles occupy a wide range of terrestrial and marine habitats, and many aspects of
their life history have been demonstrated to be closely tied to climatic variables such as …

The leatherback, Dermochelyscoriacea, is a large sea turtle that feeds primarily on jellyfish.
Floating plastic garbage could be mistaken for such prey. Autopsy records of 408 …

Two techniques are described to calculate energy densities for the bell, gonad and oral arm
tissues of three scyphozoan jellyfish (Cyanea capillata, Rhizostoma octopus and Chrysaora …

Environmental conditions experienced by animals constrain their energy acquisition and its
subsequent allocation to growth and reproduction, which ultimately contributes to population …

It has been proposed that because marine turtles have environmentally determined sex by
incubation temperature, elevated temperatures might skew sex ratios to unsustainable …

Aim Our aim was to collect sightings data on oceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) within
the Raja Ampat Archipelago to better understand their population dynamics within the …

Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on individual species and populations is
essential for the stewardship of ecosystems and biodiversity. Critically endangered …

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 …