Intraspecific application of the mid-domain effect model: Spatial and temporal nest distributions of green turtles, Chelonia mydas, at Tortuguero, Costa Rica

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 918-924

  Tiwari, Manjula ^a   Bjorndal, Karen A ^a   Bolten, Alan B ^a   Bolker, Benjamin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chelonia mydas; Costa Rica; Green turtles; Intraspecific mid domain effect; Nests; Reproductive activity; Spatial distribution; Temporal distribution; Tortuguero

Indexed keywords

INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NEST SITE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TURTLE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; LIMON; TORTUGUERO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHELONIA MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 24344472956     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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