Biodiversity, exploitation, and conservation of turtles in the tonle sap biosphere reserve, Cambodia, with notes on reproductive ecology of malayemys subtrijuga

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-204

  Platt, Steven G ^a,f   Sovannara, Heng ^a,b   Kheng, Long ^c   Holloway, Rohan ^d   Stuart, Bryan L ^a,g   Rainwater, Thomas R ^e  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Cambodia)

^b Department of Fisheries ^*  (Cambodia)

^c Ministry of Environment   (Cambodia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^e TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Conservation; Distribution; Exploitation; Geoemydidae; Protected areas; Reptilia; Testudines; Trionychidae; Turtles

Indexed keywords

AMYDA CARTILAGINEA; BATAGUR BASKA; CUORA AMBOINENSIS; GEOEMYDIDAE; HEOSEMYS; MALAYEMYS SUBTRIJUGA; PELOCHELYS CANTORII; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; TRIONYCHIDAE;

EID: 58249124819     PISSN: 10718443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2744/CCB-0703.1     Document Type: Article

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