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Fig. 3 | Movement Ecology

Fig. 3

From: Riders on the storm: loggerhead sea turtles detect and respond to a major hurricane in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

Fig. 3

a The latitudinal movements of tagged turtles in the Before, During, and After phases relative to the passing of Hurricane Irene. For each of these phases, the colored box represents the interquartile range (25th to 75th percentile), the horizontal black line within the colored box represents the median value, the upper and lower whiskers represent values that fall within 1.5x the interquartile range, and the black dots represent the outlying points [46]. The grey shaded area for each turtle represents its foraging range which spanned between the 5th and 95th percentile of the latitudinal extent for the time period three to six weeks prior to T0. Turtles a – j (light green) remained in their foraging range as the interquartile range within the After phase overlapped with their foraging range, while turtles k – r (darker green) left their foraging grounds after the hurricane passed. The light red line connects the medians between each phase to highlight the overall movement pattern. b Example turtle movements in all phases: c) This animal was one of the turtles that revisited their foraging grounds after moving north in the During and Departure phases; i) This animal did not leave its pre-storm foraging area in the During phase, but did move a bit south in the After phase; k) This animal did not return to its foraging ground, and instead was the only animal in this study that moved inshore; r) One of the animals that did not return to its foraging ground, and instead went south by almost 2° of latitude in the After phase

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