Fig. 14 in The Ecology And Migrations Of Sea Turtles 8. Tests Of The Developmental Habitat Hypothesis

Fig. 14. Size distribution of all Chelonia mydas captured (A) at Secretary, Chiriqui Lagoon, Panama, 1989–1997, and (B) immature C. mydas captured at the Zapatilla Cays, Panama, 1990– 2005. C, Size at last capture versus time in years to foreign recapture of 26 C. mydas captured at these site (y 5 22.830x + 233.75, r 2 5 0.4996, P,0.001 Minimum adult size, indicated by the dashed line, is based on laparoscopy of 178 C. mydas in Bocas del Toro, Panama, and size criteria developed from laparoscopy data (this study; Meylan and Meylan, unpubl. data).