期刊
INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY
卷 8, 期 3, 页码 293-306出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2012.00298.x
关键词
Chelonia mydas; Costa Rica; East Pacific green turtle; internesting period; satellite telemetry
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资金
- L. D. Betz Chair of Environmental Science endowment of Drexel University
- Leatherback Trust
Using satellite transmitters, we determined the internesting movements, spatial ecology and diving behavior of East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nesting on Nombre de Jesus and Zapotillal beaches along the Pacific coast of northwestern Costa Rica. Kernel density analysis indicated that turtles spent most of their time in a particularly small area in the vicinity of the nesting beaches (50% utilization distribution was an area of 3 km(2)). Minimum daily distance traveled during a 12 day internesting period was 4.6 +/- 3.5 km. Dives were short and primarily occupied the upper 10 m of the water column. Turtles spent most of their time resting at the surface and conducting U-dives (ranging from 60 to 81% of the total tracking time involved in those activities). Turtles showed a strong diel pattern, U-dives mainly took place during the day and turtles spent a large amount of time resting at the surface at night. The lack of long-distance movements demonstrated that this area was heavily utilized by turtles during the nesting season and, therefore, was a crucial location for conservation of this highly endangered green turtle population. The unique behavior of these turtles in resting at the surface at night might make them particularly vulnerable to fishing activities near the nesting beaches.
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