Journal
CARIBBEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
Volume 48, Issue 2-3, Pages 162-163Publisher
UNIV PUERTO RICO,
DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v48i3.a05
Keywords
invasive; seagrass; green turtle; ecological adaptation
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- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
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From Bonaire, we here provide the first documented case of the green turtle feeding on the invasive seagrass, Halophila stipulacea, in the Caribbean. The seagrass is rapidly invading existing seagrass meadows and altering key foraging habitat of this endangered marine reptile throughout the eastern Caribbean. We expect that more records of green turtles feeding on this invasive species will gradually follow from throughout the region and that the green turtle might alter its foraging behavior in response to the changing species composition of its foraging habitat.
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