Common coastal foraging areas for loggerheads in the Gulf of Mexico: Opportunities for marine conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-194

  Hart, Kristen M ^a   Lamont, Margaret M ^b   Fujisaki, Ikuko ^b   Tucker, Anton D ^c   Carthy, Raymond R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Gulf of Mexico; Kernel density estimation; Loggerhead; Satellite tracking; Switching state space modeling

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; LIFE HISTORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOVEMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SITE FIDELITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBPOPULATION; TELEMETRY; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84856222872     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.030     Document Type: Article

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