Effect of food availability on the abundance of juvenile hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in inshore aggregation areas of the Culebra Archipelago, Puerto Rico

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-221

  Rincon Diaz, Martha P ^a   Diez, Carlos E ^b   Van Dam, Robert P ^c   Sabat, Alberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b Programa de Especies Protegidas   (Puerto Rico)

^c Chelonia Inc   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

analysis of similarities; benthic structure; Cheloniidae; coral reefs; nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Reptilia; Testudines

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CHELONIIDAE; ERETMOCHELYS; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84855432026     PISSN: 10718443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2744/CCB-0920.1     Document Type: Article

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