Is the geographic distribution of nesting in the Kemp's Ridley turtle shaped by the migratory needs of offspring?

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-314

  Putman, Nathan F ^a   Shay, Thomas J ^a,b   Lohmann, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; MALE; MEXICO; NESTING; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOCHELYS; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77956297405     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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