Are Coastal Protected Areas Always Effective in Achieving Population Recovery for Nesting Sea Turtles?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Nel, Ronel ^a   Punt, André E ^b   Hughes, George R ^c  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Retired Conservator ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARETTA CARETTA; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MORTALITY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION RECOVERY; SEASHORE; TURTLE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA; TURTLES;

CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84877076010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063525     Document Type: Article

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