Compensatory growth in oceanic loggerhead sea turtles: response to a stochastic environment

Abstract excerpt

Compensatory growth (CG, accelerated growth that may occur when an organism that has grown at a reduced rate as a result of suboptimal environmental conditions is exposed to better conditions) is considered an adaptation to variable environments. Although documented thoroughly under captive conditions, CG has rarely been studied in wild populations. In their first years of life, oceanic‐stage loggerhead sea turtle...

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• Analysis of Variance
• Biological Evolution
• Body Size
• Environment
• Growth
• Models, Biological
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Normal Distribution

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e516582c-a6cb-5a51-a373-60355c23e5d9

DOI

10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1237:cgiols]2.0.co;2