Nesting Phenology of Marine Turtles: Insights from a Regional Comparative Analysis on Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Dalleau, Mayeul ^a,b,f,g   Ciccione, Stéphane ^b   Mortimer, Jeanne A ^c,d   Garnier, Julie ^e   Benhamou, Simon ^f   Bourjea, Jérôme ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b Kélonia l'observatoire des tortues marines de La Réunion ^*  (France)

^c SEYCHELLES ISLANDS FOUNDATION   (Seychelles)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHELONIA MYDAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FORAGING; INDIAN OCEAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARINE SPECIES; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

EID: 84867300848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046920     Document Type: Article

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