TY - CHAP
TI - Oceanic Habits and Habitats Caretta caretta
AU - Mansfield, K
AU - Putman, N
T2 - The Biology of Sea Turtles
AB - Like other cheloniid sea turtle species, loggerheads (Caretta caretta) are long-lived, late-maturing animals. Loggerheads spend the majority of their lives in a marine environment, occurring within both near-shore (neritic) waters and offshore (oceanic) waters. The oceanic habitat loggerheads occupy is broadly defined as seaward of the 200 m isobath (Bolten, 2003a,b; Witherington et al., 2006); waters with depths exceeding 200m are considered oceanic, shallower waters are considered neritic (Lalli and Parsons, 1993; Tomczak and Godfrey, 1994). Between the ocean surface and floor, loggerheads live within a three-dimensional, dynamic world. As highly migratory, poikilothermic reptiles, loggerhead distribution and behavior are invariably linked to the environment these turtles inhabit-an environment influenced by physical processes and subject to shifting temperatures, currents, habitats, and prey availability.
DA - 2013/01//
PY - 2013
VL - 3
SP - 189
EP - 210
PB - CRC Press
UR - https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Xf_RBQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA189&dq=Oceanic+habits+and+habitats+-+Caretta+caretta+&ots=F52qU-U5Is&sig=_g6neNsWz7eDVj_r6NUJiNtXcqs#v=onepage&q=Oceanic%20habits%20and%20habitats%20-%20Caretta%20caretta&f=false
LA - English
KW - Reptiles
ER -