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Multi-year tracking reveals extensive pelagic phase of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the North Pacific

Overview of attention for article published in Movement Ecology, October 2016
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Title
Multi-year tracking reveals extensive pelagic phase of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the North Pacific
Published in
Movement Ecology, October 2016
DOI 10.1186/s40462-016-0087-4
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Authors

D. K. Briscoe, D. M. Parker, S. Bograd, E. Hazen, K. Scales, G. H. Balazs, M. Kurita, T. Saito, H. Okamoto, M. Rice, J. J. Polovina, L. B. Crowder

Abstract

The juvenile stage of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can last for decades. In the North Pacific Ocean, much is known about their seasonal movements in relation to pelagic habitat, yet understanding their multi-year, basin-scale movements has proven more difficult. Here, we categorize the large-scale movements of 231 turtles satellite tracked from 1997 to 2013 and explore the influence of biological and environmental drivers on basin-scale movement. Results show high residency of juvenile loggerheads within the Central North Pacific and a moderate influence of the Earth's magnetic field, but no real-time environmental driver to explain migratory behavior. We suggest the Central North Pacific acts as important developmental foraging grounds for young juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, rather than just a migratory corridor. We propose several hypotheses that may influence the connectivity between western and eastern juvenile loggerhead foraging grounds in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
South Africa 1 1%
Unknown 81 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 23 28%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 13%
Other 8 10%
Student > Master 7 9%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 13 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39 48%
Environmental Science 17 21%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Unspecified 1 1%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 19 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 June 2019.
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#6,409,199
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Outputs from Movement Ecology
#198
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#97,801
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Outputs of similar age from Movement Ecology
#4
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