Inter-annual variability in the home range of breeding turtles: Implications for current and future conservation management

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 722-730

  Schofield, Gail ^a,b   Hobson, Victoria J ^a   Lilley, Martin K S ^a   Katselidis, Kostas A ^b   Bishop, Charles M ^c   Brown, Peter ^d   Hays, Graeme C ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b National Marine Park of Zakynthos   (Greece)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NAVSYS Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breeding dispersal; Climate change; Habitat selection; Marine protected areas; Marine vertebrate; Phenology; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GPS; HABITAT SELECTION; MARINE PARK; PHENOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; TELEMETRY; TURTLE;

GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; ZAKYNTHOS [IONIAN ISLANDS];

CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 76449093761     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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