Predation risk to loggerhead hatchlings at a high-density nesting beach in southeast Florida

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 325-335

  Stewart, Kelly R ^a,b   Wyneken, Jeanette ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; NESTLING; PREDATION RISK; TURTLE;

FLORIDA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; MEGALOPS ATLANTICUS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042580741     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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