Oceanic diet and distribution of haplotypes for the green turtle, chelonia mydas, in the Central North Pacific

Pacific Science

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-431

  Parker, Denise M ^a   Dutton, Peter H ^b   Balazs, George H ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; CARNIVORE; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOTYPE; MORTALITY; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; OPEN OCEAN; PELAGIC FISHERY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TURTLE; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AMPHIPODA; ANSER; CARINARIA; CAVOLINIA; CHELONIA MYDAS; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CRUSTACEA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); GASTROPODA; LEPADIDAE; LEPAS; MOLLUSCA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PYROSOMA; SALPIDA; SCYPHOZOA; TESTUDINES; THORACICA;

EID: 80053518771     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: 15346188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/65.4.419     Document Type: Article

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