Saving sea turtles: The evolution of the IUCN Marine Turtle Group

Endeavour

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 114-118

  Davis, Frederick R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES; RESEARCH;

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES; MARINE PROTECTION; MARINE TURTLE GROUP (MTG); SEA TURTLES;

OCEAN HABITATS;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; REVIEW; SEA; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; TURTLES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 24344452989     PISSN: 01609327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2005.06.002     Document Type: Review

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1. A.F. Carr The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores 1956 Knopf New York, NY, USA
2. A.F. See Carr So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles 1st edn 1967 Natural History Press Garden City, NY, USA
3. Carr represents an exemplary naturalist, as described in Farber, P.L. (2000) Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson, John Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MA, USA).
4. On activist scientists, see Barrow, M.V. (2001) Naturalists as Conservationists: American scientists, social responsibility, and political activism after the bomb. In Science, History, and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn (Boston studies in the philosophy of science) (Allen, G.E. and MacLeod, R.M., ed.), pp. 217-233, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Boston, MA, USA)
5. For a biography of Peter Scott, see Huxley, E.J.G. (1995) Peter Scott, Painter and Naturalist, Fulcrum (Golden, CO, USA)
6. Letter from Peter Scott to Archie Carr (4 December 1963) in Box 22 (Series 2, Box 8) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida
7. Letter from Archie Carr to Peter Scott (30 June 1964) in Box 22 (Series 2, Box 8) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida
8. Letter from Peter Scott to Archie Carr (1 February 1966) in Box 22 (Series 2, Box 8) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida
9. Early in his career, Carr was dedicated to the taxonomy of turtles. See, for example, Carr, A.F. (1952) Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California, Comstock (Ithaca, NY, USA)
10. Carr revised the taxonomy of three species of sea turtles; see Carr, A.F. (1942) Notes on sea turtles. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11, pp. 1-16
11. Letter from Archie Carr to Peter Scott (30 June 1964) in Box 22 (Series 2, Box 8) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida
12. Carr, A.F. (1968) Sea turtles: a vanishing asset (IUCN Publications New Series 13), (paper presented at the Latin American Conference on the Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, 27 March-2 April 1968) IUCN (Morges, Switzerland), p. 167
13. Letter from Archie Carr to Peter Scott (1 February 1968) in Box 22 (Series 2, Box 8) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida
14. Letter from Archie Carr to Colin W. Holloway (3 May 1968) in Box 19 (Series 2, Box 5) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida, p. 3
15. Letter from Archie Carr to Colin W. Holloway (3 May, 1968) in Box 19 (Series 2, Box 5) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida, p. 1
16. Letter from Peter Scott to Archie Carr (9 June 1970) in Box 22 (Series 2, Box 8) in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida, p. 1
17. Carr, A.F. (1971) Research and Conservation Problems in Costa Rica. Paper presented at the Second working meeting of the Marine Turtle Specialist Group and stored in the Archie F. Carr, Jr Papers, Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida