Encouraging outlook for recovery of a once severely exploited marine megaherbivore

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-304

  Chaloupka, Milani ^a   Bjorndal, Karen A ^b   Balazs, George H ^c   Bolten, Alan B ^b   Ehrhart, Llewellyn M ^d,e   Limpus, Colin J ^f   Suganuma, Hiroyuki ^g   Troëng, Sebastian ^h,i   Yamaguchi, Manami ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^e Hubbs SeaWorld Research Institute   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^g Everlasting Nature of Asia   (Japan)

^h Caribbean Conservation and Sea Turtle Survival League   (Costa Rica)

ⁱ LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^j Ogasawara Marine Center   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Chelonia mydas; Conservation; Green sea turtle; Marine; Stock recovery

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPLOITATION; EXTINCTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BONIN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CORAL SEA; COSTA RICA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; LIMON; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; TOKYO [KANTO]; TORTUGUERO; UNITED STATES;

CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 39049158387     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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