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The bioenergetics and trophic ecology of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The bioenergetics and trophic ecology of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)./
Author:	Wallace, Bryan Patrick.
Description:	116 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: B, page: 2387.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05B.
Subject:	Biology, Ecology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3176550
ISBN:	9780542157233

The bioenergetics and trophic ecology of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea).
Wallace, Bryan Patrick.

The bioenergetics and trophic ecology of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea). - 116 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: B, page: 2387.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2005.

Leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, are critically endangered, long-lived migratory reptiles and are specialist predators for gelatinous prey. Their unique physiological and life history traits make quantification of their energetic requirements and understanding of their trophic ecology crucial to conservation of the species. Using doubly labeled water (DLW) on adult female leatherbacks I obtained the first field metabolic rates (FMRs; 0.20--0.74 W kg-1) and water turnover rates (16--30% Total Body Water d-1) for free-swimming marine turtles and combined these data with dive information from electronic archival tags to quantify the bioenergetics and diving activity of reproductive adult female leatherback turtles. Internesting leatherback dive durations were consistently shorter than aerobic dive limits calculated from my FMRs, indicating that internesting female leatherbacks spent relatively little energy while active at sea. Energy budget calculations using the FMRs indicated that resource limitation related to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) might lengthen remigration intervals for eastern Pacific leatherbacks as compared to North Atlantic leatherbacks, thus decreasing the eastern Pacific population's reproductive success and increasing its exposure to risk of incidental fisheries mortality, resulting in plummeting eastern Pacific populations. Analyses of stable carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes ratios (delta 13C and delta15N) of leatherback tissues from eastern Pacific and North Atlantic nesting populations revealed that while delta 13C signatures were similar between North Atlantic (-19.4&permil; +/- 1.0&permil;) and eastern Pacific leatherbacks (-19.1&permil; +/- 0.7&permil;), reflecting the pelagic foraging strategy of the species, eastern Pacific leatherback delta15N signatures (15.4&permil; +/- 1.8&permil;) was significantly enriched relative to North Atlantic leatherback delta15N signatures (9.8&permil; +/- 1.5&permil;). This delta15N discrepancy reflects inter-basin differences in nitrogen cycling regimes and their influence on primary production being transferred through several trophic levels.

ISBN: 9780542157233Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017726
Biology, Ecology.

The bioenergetics and trophic ecology of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea).
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