Normalizing home ranges of immature Kemp’s ridley turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) in an important estuarine foraging area to better assess their spatial distribution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Andrew DiMatteo ◽  
Gwen Lockhart ◽  
Susan Barco
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Lepidochelys Kempii ◽  
Foraging Area ◽  
Kemp's Ridley

Trace Metal and Organochlorine Pesticide Concentrations in Cold-Stunned Juvenile Kemp's Ridley Turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) from Cape Cod, Massachusetts

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Innis ◽  
Michael Tlusty ◽  
Christopher Perkins ◽  
Steven Holladay ◽  
Constance Merigo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trace Metal ◽  
Organochlorine Pesticide ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
Lepidochelys Kempii ◽  
Kemp's Ridley

Occurrence of Kemp's Ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) Along the Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Guzmán-Hernández ◽  
Eduardo A. Cuevas-Flores ◽  
René Márquez-Millán
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Lepidochelys Kempii ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Kemp's Ridley

Diving behaviour of an immature Kemp's ridley turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) from Gullivan Bay, Ten Thousand Islands, south-west Florida

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 919-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Sasso ◽  
Wayne N. Witzell
Keyword(s):  
Foraging Behaviour ◽  
Diving Behaviour ◽  
Foraging Habitat ◽  
Normal Pattern ◽  
Lepidochelys Kempii ◽  
South West ◽  
Normal Period ◽  
Thousand Islands ◽  
Kemp's Ridley

We report on the first successfully deployed time-depth recorder on an immature Kemp's ridley turtle in a coastal foraging habitat in south-west Florida. The turtle exhibited three distinct dive patterns interpreted as: post release stress (26 h) post release transition (8 h) and normal (>34 h). The normal pattern consists of short periods on the surface followed by longer periods on the bottom in 2–3 m of water which we speculate is foraging behaviour. Overall, the turtle spent 94% of the time submerged during the normal period. The turtle spent significantly more time submerged at night than during the day, suggesting the turtle was resting. Night dives were consistently longer than dawn, day or dusk dives.

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