Only some like it hot - Quantifying the environmental niche of the loggerhead sea turtle

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-457

  Hawkes, Lucy A ^a   Broderick, Annette C ^a   Coyne, Michael S ^b   Godfrey, Matthew H ^c   Godley, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b SEATURTLEORG   (United States)

^c North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Environment; Loggerhead turtle; Niche model; North America; Satellite tracking

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; HIBERNATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NICHE; NICHE OVERLAP; SATELLITE DATA; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34250317790     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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