Twenty-six years of green turtle nesting at Tortuguero, Costa Rica: An encouraging trend

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 126-134

  Bjorndal, Karen A ^a,d   Wetherall, Jerry A ^b   Bolten, Alan B ^a   Mortimer, Jeanne A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c Caribbean Conservation Corporation   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; NESTING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURTLE;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0033045819     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97329.x     Document Type: Article

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