Current status of the sea turtles nesting on Okinawajima and adjacent islands of the central Ryukyus, Japan

Biological Conservation

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 149-153

  Kikukawa, Akira ^a   Kamezaki, Naoki ^b   Ota, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central Ryukyus in Japan; Nesting periods; Nesting species composition; Nesting status; Sea turtles

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; NEST SITE; TURTLE;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032888992     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(98)00047-0     Document Type: Article

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