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Humpback whale migration

Our paper in Biology Letters:

Rasmussen, K., D.M. Palacios, J. Calambokidis, M. Saborio, L. Dalla-Rosa, E. Secchi, G. Steiger, J. Allen, and G. Stone. 2007. Southern Hemisphere humpback whales wintering off Central America: insights from water temperature into the longest mammalian migration. Biology Letters 3(3):302-305, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0067.

documented the longest known migration undertaken by a population of humpback whales, from feeding areas off Antarctica to breeding areas off Central America, and the influence of water temperature on the distribution of the breeding areas on a global scale:

Leatherback turtle migration

Our paper in PLoS Biology:

Shillinger, G.L., D.M. Palacios, H. Bailey, S.J. Bograd, A.M. Swithenbank, P. Gaspar, B.P. Wallace, J.R. Spotila, F.V. Paladino, R. Piedra, S.A. Eckert, and B.A. Block. 2008. Persistent leatherback turtle migrations present opportunities for conservation. PLoS Biology 6(7), e171, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060171.

described the migration of eastern Pacific leatherback turtles from their nesting beach in Costa Rica to the South Pacific, including the influence of equatorial currents on the migration route and the association with a region of persistently low current motions and low productivity in the South Pacific Gyre where they presumably forage: