Complexity and variation in loggerhead sea turtle life history

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 592-594

  McClellan, Catherine M ^a   Read, Andrew J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Loggerhead turtle; Migration; Neritic; Oceanic; Ontogenetic

Indexed keywords

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEA; TELEMETRY; TURTLE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; OCEANS AND SEAS; TELEMETRY; TURTLES;

EID: 38449119415     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0355     Document Type: Article

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