Global conservation priorities for Marine turtles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Wallace, Bryan P ^a,b,c   DiMatteo, Andrew D ^a,c   Bolten, Alan B ^a,d   Chaloupka, Milani Y ^a,e   Hutchinson, Brian J ^a,b   Abreu Grobois, F Alberto ^a,f   Mortimer, Jeanne A ^a,d,g   Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^a,h   Amorocho, Diego ^a,i   Bjorndal, Karen A ^a,d   Bourjea, Jérôme ^a,j   Bowen, Brian W ^a,k   Dueñas, Raquel ^a,f   Casale, Paolo ^a,l,m   Choudhury, B C ^a,n   Costa, Alice ^a,o   Dutton, Peter H ^a,p   Fallabrino, Alejandro ^a,q   Finkbeiner, Elena M ^a,c   Girard, Alexandre ^a,r,s   Girondot, Marc ^a,t   Hamann, Mark ^a,u   Hurley, Brendan J ^a,b   López Mendilaharsu, Milagros ^a,v,w   Marcovaldi, Maria Angela ^a,v   Musick, John A ^a,x   Nel, Ronel ^a,y   Pilcher, Nicolas J ^a,z   Troëng, Sebastian ^a,b,aa,ab   Witherington, Blair ^a,ac   Mast, Roderic B ^a,b   more..

^a IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group Burning Issues Working Group   (United States)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^g Island Conservation Society   (Seychelles)

^h SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ Centro De Investigacion Para El Manejo Ambiental y El Desarrollo   (Colombia)

^j IFREMER   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^l SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^m World Wildlife Fund Italy   (Italy)

ⁿ WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^o World Wildlife Fund Mozambique   (Mozambique)

^p NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^q Karumbe   (Uruguay)

^r Association RENATURA   (France)

^s Université Paris Sud ^*

^t UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^u JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^v Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro   (Brazil)

^w STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^x VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^y NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^z Marine Research Foundation   (Malaysia)

^aa LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^ab Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission   (United States)

^ac FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MARINE SPECIES; MARINE TURTLE; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REGIONAL MANAGEMENT UNIT; RESEARCH; RISK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; THREAT; TURTLE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

CHELONIIDAE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

EID: 80053280371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024510     Document Type: Article

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