Is the Spanish coast within the regular nesting range of the Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)?

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1509-1512

  Tomás, Jesús ^a   Gazo, Manel ^b   Álvarez, Carla ^b   Gozalbes, Patricia ^c   Perdiguero, Diana ^c   Raga, Juan Antonio ^c   Alegre, Ferrán ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Fundació CRAM ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Loggerhead sea turtle; Nesting; Western mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NESTING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TURTLE;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; SPAIN;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 76949087917     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408001768     Document Type: Article

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