Author : Archie Carr
Release : 1986
Genre : Sea turtles
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New Perspectives on the Pelagic Stage of Sea Turtle Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives on the Pelagic Stage of Sea Turtle Development write by Archie Carr. This book was released on 1986. New Perspectives on the Pelagic Stage of Sea Turtle Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Thirty years ago when interest in sea turtles was beginning to spread, the ,habitat of the post-hatchlings for all the species was unknown. After they left the nest and made their way through the surf, they simply disappeared. Very slowly, data to suggest a pelagic life in a sargassum weed habitat accumulated, and eventually I received support to investigate that idea intensively. By the end of that research period it was clear that when sargassum rafts are present in longshore arrays within the swimming range of the hatchlings, they do in fact enter them (Carr 1982). It followed that the early developmental stages are pelagic, with the corollary that, because sargassum accumulates along convergences, the adjacent currents may carry the rafts and their occupants on journeys of either local or oceanic extent or both"--Introduction.