Sex ratios of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta in the Mediterranean Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 324, Issue , 2006, Pages 281-285

  Casale, Paolo ^a   Lazar, Bojan ^b,c   Pont, Sara ^d   Tomás, Jesús ^e   Zizzo, Nicola ^f   Alegre, Ferran ^d   Badillo, Javier ^e   Di Summa, Aldo ^f   Freggi, Daniela ^g   Lacković, Gordana ^h   Raga, Juan Antonio ⁱ   Rositani, Lucio ^b   Tvrtković, Nikola ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}  

^a Croatian Natural History Museum ^*  (Italy)

^b CROATIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Croatia)

^c Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation   (Croatia)

^d Foundation for the Conservation and Recovery of Marine Animals   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^g Sea Turtle Rescue Centre   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

ⁱ Laboratorio Biologia Marina Bari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Juvenile sea turtles; Mediterranean; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; JUVENILE; NEST SITE; SEX RATIO; TURTLE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33845237409     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps324281     Document Type: Article

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