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ECOLOGY
卷 85, 期 4, 页码 1137-1145出版社
ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1890/03-0251
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Ascension Island; bird; buoyancy control; Chelonia mydas; depth selection; diving; green turtle; mammal; penguin; pinniped; seal
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Among air-breathing divers, control of buoyancy through lung volume regulation may be most highly developed in marine turtles. In short, the turtle lung may serve a dual role as both an oxygen store and in buoyancy control. A simple model is developed to show that, for turtles diving up to the maximum depth at which they can still use their lungs to attain neutral buoyancy, the total oxygen store will increase greatly with dive depth, and hence a corresponding increase in dive duration is predicted. Time-depth recorders attached to free-living green turtles (Chelonia mydas) at Ascension Island continued a marked increase in dive duration with depth, with the gradient of this relationship being >10 times that seen in diving birds and mammals. Consistent with the prediction that the lungs serve a dual role, we found that, when lead weights were added to some turtles to increase their specific gravity, the mean depth of dives decreased, but for dives to the same depth, weighted animals dived for longer. The depth distribution of green turtles seems to be generally constrained by the maximum depth at which they can still attain close to neutral buoyancy.
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