Monitoring green turtles (Chelonia mydas) at a coastal foraging area in Baja California, Mexico: Multiple indices to describe population status

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1355-1362

  Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^a,f   Todd Jones, T ^b   Resendiz, Antonio ^c   Nichols, Wallace J ^d   Chaloupka, Milani Y ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ecologia   (Mexico)

^d Wildcoast Intl Conservation Team   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

BAJA CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 1042290172     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315403008816     Document Type: Article

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