Modeling the effect of sea surface temperature on sea turtle nesting activities by investigating seasonal trends

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 445-465

  Mazaris, Antonios D ^a   Kornaraki, Eyagelia ^a   Matsinos, Yiannis G ^a   Margaritoulis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b Solomou   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arima; Forecasting; Sea surface temperature; Sea turtles; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 39549106691     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2004.tb00145.x     Document Type: Article

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