Compensatory growth in oceanic loggerhead sea turtles: Response to a stochastic environment

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1237-1249

  Bjorndal, Karen A ^a   Bolten, Alan B ^a   Dellinger, Thomas ^b   Delgado, Cláudia ^b   Martins, Helen R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Age year cohort effects; Caretta caretta; Compensatory growth; Demography; Marine turtle; Skeletochronology; Somatic growth; Time varying parameters

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST);

AMPHIBIA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0345538693     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[1237:CGIOLS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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