Important nesting habitats of olive ridley turtles Lepidochelys olivacea along the Andhra Pradesh coast of eastern India

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Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 454-463

  Tripathy, Basudev ^a   Shanker, Kartik ^a,b   Choudhury, B C ^a  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Andhra Pradesh; Bycatch; India; Lepidochelys olivacea; Nest density; Olive ridley turtle; Orissa

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; NEST SITE; POPULATION DENSITY; TURTLE;

ANDHRA PRADESH; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 31144455644     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605303000826     Document Type: Review

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