Quantifying multiple threats to endangered species: An example from Loggerhead Sea turtles

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 295-301

  Bolten, Alan B ^a   Crowder, Larry B ^b   Dodd, Mark G ^c   Macpherson, Sandra L ^d   Musick, John A ^e   Schroeder, Barbara A ^f   Witherington, Blair E ^g   Long, Kristy J ^f   Snover, Melissa L ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^g FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; MARINE PARK; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79957943261     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/090126     Document Type: Article

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