Harnessing recreational divers for the collection of sea turtle data around the Cayman Islands

Tourism in Marine Environments

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 245-257

  Bell, Catherine D ^a,b   Blumenthal, Janice M ^a,b   Austin, Timothy J ^a   Ebanks Petrie, Gina ^a   Broderick, Annette C ^b   Godley, Brendan J ^b  

^a Department of Environment ^*  (Cayman Islands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cayman Islands; Ecotourism; Marine turtles; Population monitoring; Recreational divers; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

EID: 59449104870     PISSN: 1544273X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/154427308788714768     Document Type: Article

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