Home range and habitat use by Kemp's ridley turtles in west-central Florida

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 196-206

  Schmid, Jeffrey R ^a,b,c   Bolten, Alan B ^a   Bjorndal, Karen A ^a   Lindberg, William J ^a   Percival, H Franklin ^a   Zwick, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c Conservancy of Southwest Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Compositional analysis; Florida; GIS; Habitat use; Home range; Kemp's ridley turtle; Lepidochelys kempii; Radiotelemetry; Sonic telemetry

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; TELEMETRY; TURTLE;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

HALOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPI; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0037287728     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3803075     Document Type: Article

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