Interpreting the spatio-temporal patterns of sea turtle strandings: Going with the flow

Biological Conservation

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 283-290

  Hart, Kristen M ^a,b   Mooreside, Peter ^a   Crowder, Larry B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Drift bottles; Kemp's ridley; Lepidochelys kempii; Loggerhead; Physical oceanography; Sea turtles; South Atlantic Bight; Strandings

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRANDING; TURTLE; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTH ATLANTIC BIGHT;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 31444434047     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.10.047     Document Type: Article

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