Fig. 23 in The Ecology And Migrations Of Sea Turtles 8. Tests Of The Developmental Habitat Hypothesis

Fig. 23. Life cycle models for cheloniid sea turtles that reflect overlap between benthic developmental habitat and other stages of the life cycle. A, Overlap between developmental habitat and the adult migratory pathway as occurs for Chelonia mydas at the Zapatilla Cays, Bocas del Toro Province, Panama (this study, Meylan and Meylan, unpubl. data). B, Overlap between developmental habitat and internesting habitat that apparently occurs for Caretta caretta along the east coast of Florida (Henwood, 1987; Ernest et al., 1989). C, Partial overlap between developmental habitat and the adult foraging range as appears to occur for Eretmochelys imbricata at Mona Island, Puerto Rico (Van Dam and Diez, 1998b), and around Antigua and Barbuda (Fuller et al., 1992). D, Complete overlap between developmental habitat and the adult foraging range that may be common for Chelonia mydas in the Pacific (see text on contradictory evidence).