Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research E-ISSN: 0718-560X
[email protected] Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Chile Jiménez, Astrid; Pingo, Sergio; Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; Mangel, Jeffrey C.; Hooker, Yuri Feeding ecology of the green turtle Chelonia mydas in northern Peru Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, vol. 45, núm. 3, julio, 2017, pp. 585-596 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Valparaíso, Chile Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=175052419008 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res., 45(3): 585-596, 201Feeding7 ecology of Chelonia mydas in Northern Peru 585 “Sea Turtle Research and Conservation in Latin America” Jeffrey Mangel, Jeffrey Seminoff, Bryan Wallace & Ximena Vélez-Suazo (Guest Editors) DOI: 10.3856/vol45-issue3-fulltext-8 Research Article Feeding ecology of the green turtle Chelonia mydas in northern Peru Astrid Jiménez1, Sergio Pingo1, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto1,2,3 Jeffrey C. Mangel1 & Yuri Hooker4 1ProDelphinus, Miraflores, Lima, Perú 2Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK 3Facultad de Biología Marina, Universidad Científica del Sur, Panamericana, Lima, Perú 4Laboratorio de Biología Marina, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú Corresponding autor: Astrid Jiménez (
[email protected]) ABSTRACT. Diet and food preferences of the green turtle Chelonia mydas were analyzed based on digestive tract contents of dead specimens caught incidentally by an artisanal gillnet fishery in Sechura Bay, northern Peru.