Home range of green turtles Chelonia mydas at a coastal foraging area in the Gulf of California, Mexico

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 242, Issue , 2002, Pages 253-265

  Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^a   Resendiz, Antonio ^a   Nichols, Wallace J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black turtle; Eastern Pacific Ocean; Fixed kernel density estimator; Minimum convex polygon; Sea of Cortez; Wildlife telemetry

Indexed keywords

FISHERY; HOME RANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; TURTLE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALGAE; CHELONIA MYDAS; MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0037175206     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps242253     Document Type: Article

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