Male-producing thermal ecology of a southern loggerhead turtle nesting beach in Brazil: Implications for conservation

Animal Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-13

  Baptistotte, Cecília ^a   Scalfoni, Juarez T ^a   Mrosovsky, N ^b  

^a Projeto TAMAR/IBAMA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0002783696     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136794309900030X     Document Type: Article

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