Green turtle Chelonia mydas mixed stocks in the western South Atlantic, as revealed by mtDNA haplotypes and drifter trajectories

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 447, Issue , 2012, Pages 195-209

  Proietti, M C ^a   Reisser, J W ^a,b   Kinas, P G ^a   Kerr, R ^a   Monteiro, D S ^c   Marins, L F ^a   Secchi, E R ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Núcleo de Educação e Monitoramento Ambiental NEMA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dispersal patterns; Feeding grounds; Genetic structure; Green turtle; Natal origins; South Brazil

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DRIFTER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING GROUND; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATAL DISPERSAL; NEST SITE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

ARVOREDO ISLAND; BRAZIL; CASSINO BEACH; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SANTA CATARINA;

CHELONIA MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84857277430     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09477     Document Type: Article

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