Erratum: Feeding ecology of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the Galapagos Islands (Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (2011) 91:8 (1723) DOI: 10.1017/S0025315410000226);Feeding ecology of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the Galapagos Islands

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1005-1013

  Carrión Cortez, Javier A ^a,b,c   Zárate, Patricia ^a,d   Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^e  

^a Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

black turtle; Chelonia mydas; diet; eastern Pacific Ocean; Galapagos Marine Reserve; spatial variation

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARCHIPELAGO; COASTAL WATER; DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MARINE PARK; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TURTLE;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; GALAPAGOS MARINE RESERVE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CALETA; CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; CNIDARIA; HYPNEA SP.; POLYSIPHONIA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; TESTUDINES; ULVA; ULVA LACTUCA;

EID: 77958484963     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002531541000158X     Document Type: Erratum

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