Fidelity to foraging sites, consistency of migration routes and habitat modulation of home range by sea turtles

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 840-853

  Schofield, Gail ^a   Hobson, Victoria J ^a   Fossette, Sabrina ^a   Lilley, Martin K S ^a   Katselidis, Kostas A ^b   Hays, Graeme C ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b National Marine Park of Zakynthos   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity scale; Conservation management; Endangered; Marine vertebrate; Phenology; Remote technology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING SITE; COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GPS; HOME RANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MIGRATION ROUTE; PHENOLOGY; PREY AVAILABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SITE SELECTION; SPACE USE; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TRACKING; TURTLE;

GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ZAKYNTHOS [IONIAN ISLANDS]; ZAKYNTHOS NATIONAL MARINE PARK;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955818309     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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