Navigational challenges in the oceanic migrations of leatherback sea turtles

by Alessandro Sale, and Paolo Luschi

Proceedings BVolume 276(1674):3737-3745

November 7, 2009

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Trajectories of (a) five leatherback turtles and (b) four surface drifting buoys tracked by satellite in the southwestern Indian Ocean.

Alessandro Sale, and Paolo Luschi Proc. R. Soc. B 2009;276:3737-3745

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Route of a leatherback turtle tracked by satellite in the Atlantic Ocean between 29 June 2000 and 20 April 2001.

Alessandro Sale, and Paolo Luschi Proc. R. Soc. B 2009;276:3737-3745

©2009 by The Royal Society

Graphical representation of the Earth's magnetic field and of the geomagnetic vector describing the field at any given location on the Earth's surface.

Alessandro Sale, and Paolo Luschi Proc. R. Soc. B 2009;276:3737-3745

©2009 by The Royal Society

Chart of the southwestern Indian Ocean showing (a) lines of equal intensity (values in nT) and (b) lines of equal declination (values in degrees) of the Earth's magnetic field.

Alessandro Sale, and Paolo Luschi Proc. R. Soc. B 2009;276:3737-3745

©2009 by The Royal Society