Spatio-temporal patterns of juvenile marine turtle occurrence in waters of the European continental shelf

Marine Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 873-885

  Witt, Matthew J ^a   Penrose, Rod ^b   Godley, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Marine Environmental Monitoring   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; JUVENILE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; POPULATION SIZE; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34248136000     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0532-9     Document Type: Article

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