Lost at sea: Genetic, oceanographic and meteorological evidence for storm-forced dispersal

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 73, 2012, Pages 1725-1732

  Monzon Arguello C ^a,b,c   Dell'Amico, F ^d   Moriniere P ^d   Marco, A ^c   Lopez Jurado L F ^b   Hays, Graeme C ^a   Scott, Rebecca ^a   Marsh, Robert ^e   Lee, Patricia L M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d Port des Minimes   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lagrangian buoy trajectories; Loggerhead sea turtles; Mixed stock analysis; mtDNA; Particle tracking; Storm tracks

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS;

LAGRANGIAN; MTDNA; PARTICLE TRACKING; SEA TURTLES; STOCK ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA; TURTLE; WEATHER;

EID: 84865087025     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0788     Document Type: Article

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