Intensive beach management as an improved sea turtle conservation strategy in Mexico

Biological Conservation

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-261

  García, Andrés ^a,c   Ceballos, Gerardo ^a,b   Adaya, Ricardo ^a,b  

^a Fund Ecologica de Cuixmala   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach erosion; Beach management for sea turtles; Beach protection; Conservation strategy; Enclosed hatchery; Lepidochelys olivacea; Nest predation; Nest translocation; Sea turtles; Sex temperature determination

Indexed keywords

BEACH; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; NEST SITE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

MEXICO;

CHELONIIDAE; LEPIDOCHELYS; LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0037409230     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00300-2     Document Type: Article

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