Recovery trend over 32 years at the Hawaiian green turtle rookery of French frigate shoals

Atoll Research Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 543, 2006, Pages 147-158

  Balazs, George H ^a   Chaloupka, Milani ^b  

^a PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; NESTING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; TURTLE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

TESTUDINES;

EID: 33749660538     PISSN: 00775630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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