A Model of Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Habitat and Movement in the Oceanic North Pacific

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Abecassis, Melanie ^a   Senina, Inna ^b   Lehodey, Patrick ^b   Gaspar, Philippe ^b   Parker, Denise ^a   Balazs, George ^c   Polovina, Jeffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CLS   (France)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CARETTA CARETTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE; LONGLINE FISHERY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; SPRING; SUMMER; SWIMMING; TURTLE; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

EID: 84883543796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073274     Document Type: Article

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