Migration Paths of the Adult Female and Male Loggerhead Turtles Caretta caretta Determined through Satellite Telemetry

Fisheries Science

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 547-552

  Sakamoto, Wataru ^a   Bando, Takeharu ^a,c   Arai, Nobuaki ^a   Baba, Norihisa ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^c T   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial satellite; Kuroshio; Loggerhead turtle; Migration; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0000227590     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.63.547     Document Type: Article

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