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Ontogeny and ecological significance of metabolic rates in sea turtle hatchlings

BACKGROUND: Sea turtle hatchlings must avoid numerous predators during dispersal from their nesting beaches to foraging grounds. Hatchlings minimise time spent in predator-dense neritic waters by swimming almost continuously for approximately the first 24 h post-emergence, termed the ‘frenzy’. Post-...

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Autores principales: Gatto, Christopher R., Jones, T. Todd, Imlach, Brittany, Reina, Richard D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35123495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-022-00451-2