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• W2108143590 abstract "MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections MEPS 447:211-229 (2012) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09503 Estimating marine resource use by the American crocodile Crocodylus acutus in southern Florida, USA Patrick V. Wheatley1,5,*, Hoyt Peckham2,3, Seth D. Newsome4, Paul L. Koch1 1Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA 2Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, La Paz, Baja California Sur, 23060 Mexico 3Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Monterey, California 93940 USA 4Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA 5Present address: Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA *Email: pvwheatley@lbl.gov ABSTRACT: Alligators and crocodiles differ in their physiological capacity to live in saline waters. Crocodiles can tolerate high-salinity water, at least for limited timeframes, whereas alligators and their close relatives cannot. Experiments have placed different crocodylians in various water salinities to document physiological responses, but no study has estimated the extent to which natural populations of crocodylids can live independent of fresh water. Here we estimated marine food and perhaps seawater contributions to a population of American crocodile Crocodylus acutus in southernmost Florida, USA. We evaluated the use of carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotopes as tracers of marine versus terrestrial sources. We compared C. acutus isotopic values to those of marine reptiles (marine iguanas and Pacific loggerhead turtles) and to American alligators, which require fresh water. We found that freshwater reptiles can be discriminated from those that drink seawater (or survive on metabolic and prey-included water in saline habitats) based on the magnitude of population-level oxygen isotope variation in bioapatite, whereas mean carbon isotope values discriminate between marine versus terrestrial food consumption. We used a 2 end-­member (seawater and fresh water) mixing model to calculate percentage of marine resources used by C. acutus. Results indicate that adult C. acutus in southern Florida use marine food about 65% of the time and seawater or water gleaned from marine food about 80% of the time. This suggests that behavioral osmoregulatory techniques (i.e. seeking fresh water specifically for drinking, as suggested by other researchers) may not be necessary and that C. acutus is capable of being largely ecologically independent of fresh water. KEY WORDS: Osmoregulation · Saltwater tolerance · Isotope · Reptile · Alligator · Marine iguana · Sea turtle Full text in pdf format PreviousNextCite this article as: Wheatley PV, Peckham H, Newsome SD, Koch PL (2012) Estimating marine resource use by the American crocodile Crocodylus acutus in southern Florida, USA. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 447:211-229. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09503 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in MEPS Vol. 447. Online publication date: February 13, 2012 Print ISSN: 0171-8630; Online ISSN: 1616-1599 Copyright © 2012 Inter-Research." @default.
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