The role of geomagnetic cues in green turtle open sea navigation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Benhamou, Simon ^a   Sudre, Joël ^b   Bourjea, Jérome ^c   Ciccione, Stéphane ^d   de Santis, Angelo ^e   Luschi, Paolo ^f  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b LEGOS   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia ^*  (France)

^e ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GREEN TURTLE; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MAGNETISM; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; SEA; SEASHORE; TURTLE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION;

CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHY; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MAGNETICS; OCEANS AND SEAS; TURTLES;

EID: 80055047242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026672     Document Type: Article

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