Evaluating trends in abundance of immature green turtles, Chelonia mydas, in the Greater Caribbean

Ecological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 304-314

  Bjorndal, Karen A ^a   Bolten, Alan B ^a   Chaloupka, Milani Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bahamas; Capture mark recapture; Chelonia mydas; Costa Rica; Demography; Greater Caribbean; Green turtle; Long lived species; Population trends; Sea turtles; Tortuguero

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPLOITATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; LIMON; OCEANIC REGIONS; TORTUGUERO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 13944267236     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0059     Document Type: Article

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