“Going with the Flow” or Not: Evidence of Positive Rheotaxis in Oceanic Juvenile Loggerhead Turtles (Caretta caretta) in the South Pacific Ocean Using Satellite Tags and Ocean Circulation Data

The movement of juvenile loggerhead turtles (n = 42) out-fitted with satellite tags and released in oceanic waters off New Caledonia was examined and compared with ocean circulation data. Merging of the daily turtle movement data with drifter buoy movements, OSCAR (Ocean Surface Current Analyses - R...

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Main Authors: Kobayashi, Donald R., Farman, Richard, Polovina, Jeffrey J., Parker, Denise M., Rice, Marc, Balazs, George H.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4123884/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25098694
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103701
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