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7Chabreck, 1971.Chabreck, R. H. 1971. The foods and feeding habits of alligators from fresh and saline environments in Louisiana. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners, 25, 117-124.
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9Dobie et al., 1961.Dobie, J. L., Ogren, L. H., & Fitzpatrick, J. F. 1961. Food notes and records of the Atlantic ridley turtle (Lepidochelys kempi) from Louisiana. Copeia, 109-110.
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11Fogarty and Albury, 1967.Fogarty, M. J., and J.D. Albury. 1967. Late summer foods of young alligators in Florida. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners 21:220–222.
12Gabrey, 2010.Gabrey, S. W. 2010. Demographic and geographic variation in food habits of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in Louisiana. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 5(2), 241-250.
13Hildebrand, 1982.Hildebrand, H. H. 1982. A historical review of the status of sea turtle populations in the western Gulf of Mexico. Biology and conservation of sea turtles. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 447-453.
14Manzella and Williams, 1992.Manzella, S. A., & Williams, J. A. 1992. The Distribution of Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles Texas Coast. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 1, 10.
15McNease and Joanen, 1977.McNease, L., and T. Joanen. 1977. Alligator diets in relation to marsh salinity. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners 31:36–40.
16McNease and Joanen, 1981.McNease, L., and T. Joanen. 1981. Nutrition of alligators. Proceedings of the Annual Alligator Production Conference 1:15–28.
17Meylan, 1990.Meylan, A. 1990. Nutritional characteristics of sponges in the diet of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata. In New Perspectives in Sponge Biology: Third International Conference on the Biology of Sponges (pp. 472-477).
18Platt et al., 1990.Platt, S. G., Brantley, C. G., & Hastings, R. W. 1990. Food habits of juvenile American Alligators in the upper Lake Pontchartrain estuary. Northeast Gulf Sci., 11(2), 123-130.
19Plotkin, 1989.Plotkin, P. T. 1989. The feeding ecology of the loggerhead sea turtle in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (Master's thesis, Texas A&M University).
20Plotkin, 1996.Plotkin, P. T. 1996. Occurrence and diet of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2, 78-79.
21Plotkin et al., 1993.Plotkin, P. T., Wicksten, M. K., & Amos, A. F. 1993. Feeding ecology of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology, 115(1), 1-5.
22Plotkin and Amos, 1988.Plotkin, P., & Amos, A. F. 1988. Entanglement in and ingestion of marine debris by sea turtles stranded along the south Texas coast. Schroeder, BA.
23Plotkin and Amos, 1990.Plotkin, P., & Amos, A. F. 1990. Effects of anthropogenic debris on sea turtles in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. In Workshop on the Fate and Impact of Marine Debris.
24Rabalais and Rabalais, 1980.Rabalais, S. C., & Rabalais, N. N. 1980. The occurrence of sea turtles on the south Texas coast. Contr. in Mar. Sci. 23:123-129
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26Rootes and Chabreck, 1993.Rootes, W. L., & Chabreck, R. H. 1993. Cannibalism in the American alligator. Herpetologica, 99-107.
27Schmid, 1998.Schmid, J. R. 1998. Marine turtle populations on the west-central coast of Florida: Results of tagging studies at the Cedar Keys, Florida, 1986-1995. Fishery Bulletin, 96(3), 589-602.
28Shaver, 1991.Shaver, D. J. 1991. Feeding ecology of wild and head-started Kemp's ridley sea turtles in south Texas waters. Journal of Herpetology, 327-334.
29Shaver, 1998.Shaver, D. J. 1998. Sea turtle strandings along the Texas coast, 1980-94. Characteristics and causes of Texas marine strandings. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 143, 57-72.
30Smith and List, 1955.Smith, P. W., & List, J. C. 1955. Notes on Mississippi amphibians and reptiles. American Midland Naturalist, 115-125.
31Tucker et al., 2014.Tucker, A. D., MacDonald, B. D., & Seminoff, J. A. 2014. Foraging site fidelity and stable isotope values of loggerhead turtles tracked in the Gulf of Mexico and Northwest Caribbean. Mar Ecol Prog Ser, 502, 267-279.
32Valentine et al., 1972.Valentine Jr, J. M., Walther, J. R., McCartney, K. M., & Ivy, L. M. 1972. Alligator diets on the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 809-815.
33Werner, 1994.Werner, S. A. 1994. Feeding ecology of wild and head started Kemp's ridley sea turtles (Master's thesis, Texas A&M University).
34Williams et al., 2014.Williams, N. C., Bjorndal, K. A., Lamont, M. M., & Carthy, R. R. 2014. Winter Diets of Immature Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) on a Northern Feeding Ground: Integrating Stomach Contents and Stable Isotope Analyses. Estuaries and Coasts, 37(4), 986-994.
35Witzell and Schmid, 2005.Witzell, W. N., & Schmid, J. R. 2005. Diet of immature Kemp's ridley turtles (Lepidochelys kempi) from Gullivan Bay, Ten Thousand Islands, southwest Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science, 77(2), 191-200.
36Witzell and Teas, 1994.Witzell, W. N., & Teas, Wendy G., 1994.The Impacts of Anthropogenic Debris on Marine Turtles in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. Miami, FL: US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Natiional Marine Fisheries Service: Southeast Fisheries Science Center. Print. NOAA Technical Memorandum. NMFS-SEFSC-355
37Wolfe et al., 1987.Wolfe, J. L., Bradshaw, D. K., & Chabreck, R. H. 1987. Alligator feeding habits: New data and a review. Northeast Gulf Sci., 9(1), 1-8.