Effects of illegal harvest of eggs on the population decline of leatherback turtles in Las Baulas Marine National Park, Costa Rica

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1216-1224

  Tomillo, Pilar Santidrián ^a   Saba, Vincent S ^b   Piedra, Rotney ^c   Paladino, Frank V ^d   Spotila, James R ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^c Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas   (Costa Rica)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Dermochelys coriacea; Leatherback turtle; Sea turtle; Turtle egg harvest; Turtle egg poaching

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BYCATCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGG; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MARINE PARK; MORTALITY; NEST GUARDING; POACHING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTA RICA; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTA RICA; FISHERIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; OVUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TURTLES;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; GUANACASTE; LAS BAULAS NATIONAL MARINE PARK;

CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 48349142339     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00987.x     Document Type: Article

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