Home range and foraging ecology of juvenile hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) on inshore reefs of honduras

Chelonian Conservation and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-43

  Berube, Melissa D ^a,c   Dunbar, Stephen G ^a,b,c   Rtzler, Klaus ^d   Hayes, William K ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training   (United States)

^c Reef House Resort ^*  (Honduras)

^d SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

fixed kernel density; hawksbill; minimum convex polygon; radio telemetry; sponges

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHELONIIDAE; CHONDRILLA (SPONGE); ERETMOCHELYS; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; GEODIA; MELOPHLUS; PSEUDOPTEROGORGIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84865510412     PISSN: 10718443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2744/CCB-0898.1     Document Type: Article

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