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SUBMITTER: Gaube P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5383008 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gaube Peter P Barceló Caren C McGillicuddy Dennis J DJ Domingo Andrés A Miller Philip P Giffoni Bruno B Marcovaldi Neca N Swimmer Yonat Y
PloS one 20170301 3
Marine animals, such as turtles, seabirds and pelagic fishes, are observed to travel and congregate around eddies in the open ocean. Mesoscale eddies, large swirling ocean vortices with radius scales of approximately 50-100 km, provide environmental variability that can structure these populations. In this study, we investigate the use of mesoscale eddies by 24 individual juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence region. The influence of eddies on turtle ...[more]