Bycatch of loggerhead sea turtles: Insights from 14 years of stranding data

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 161-169

  Tomás, Jesús ^a   Gozalbes, Patricia ^b   Raga, Juan Antonio ^b   Godley, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Conservation; Fisheries bycatch; Loggerhead sea turtle; Spanish Mediterranean; Strandings

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CONSERVATION STATUS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; STRANDING; TURTLE;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 55449131609     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00116     Document Type: Article

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