Dynamic Thermal Corridor May Connect Endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtles Across the Pacific Ocean

Dynamic Thermal Corridor May Connect Endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtles Across the Pacific Ocean

The North Pacific Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) undergoes one of the greatest of all animal migrations, nesting exclusively in Japan and re-emerging several years later along important foraging grounds in the eastern North Pacific. Yet the mechanisms that connect these disparate habitats d...

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Main Authors: Dana K. Briscoe, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Denise M. Parker, George H. Balazs, Jeffrey J. Polovina, Masanori Kurita, Hitoshi Okamoto, Tomomi Saito, Marc R. Rice, Larry B. Crowder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
loggerhead sea turtle
distribution
satellite remote sensing
sea surface temperature
habitat connectivity
migration
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.630590/full

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