Pacific leatherback turtles face extinction

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6786, 2000, Pages 529-530

  Spotila, James R ^a   Reina, Richard D ^a   Steyermark, Anthony C ^a   Plotkin, Pamela T ^b   Paladino, Frank V ^c  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b Center for Marine Conservation   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FISHING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TURTLES;

EID: 0034213613     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35014729     Document Type: Article

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