Nest-site selection in individual loggerhead turtles and consequences for doomed-egg relocation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-80

  Pfaller, Joseph B ^a,c   Limpus, Colin J ^b   Bjorndal, Karen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Egg relocation; Loggerhead sea turtle; Nest site selection; Turtle conservation

Indexed keywords

BEACH; BREEDING SEASON; NEST SITE; RELOCATION; SITE SELECTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY; NESTING; OBSERVATION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OBSERVATION; OVUM; QUEENSLAND; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TURTLES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MON REPOS; QUEENSLAND;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 58249112851     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01055.x     Document Type: Article

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