Possible influence of beach sand characteristics on green turtle nesting activity on Samandaǧ Beach, Turkey

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1379-1390

  Yalçin Özdilek, Şükran ^a   Özdilek, Hasan Göksel ^a   Ozaner, F Sancar ^b  

^a ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Nest site selection; Sand extraction; Sand grain size; Sand humidity; Uniformity coefficient

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE; HATCHING; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NESTING SUCCESS; SAND; SITE SELECTION; TURTLE;

CEVLIK HARBOUR; EURASIA; HATAY; SAMANDAG; TURKEY;

CHELONIA MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 38349002658     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/06-0630.1     Document Type: Article

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