Here we provide information on the diet of juvenile green turtles from neritic developmental habitats in the South Atlantic that indicates the existence of a gradual dietary shift from a primarily carnivorous to a primarily herbivorous diet. Linear regression showed a relation between the size of turtles (n = 22) and the proportion of vegetal matter in the diet, with smaller animals being predominantly carnivorous. We propose 3 hypotheses that could explain these observations.
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1 December 2014
Direct Evidence for Gradual Ontogenetic Dietary Shift in the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas
Renato Araujo Morais,
Robson Guimarães dos Santos,
Guilherme Ortigara Longo,
Eduardo Tadashi Estevam Yoshida,
Gustavo David Stahelin,
Paulo Antunes Horta
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