Composition of green turtle feeding aggregations along the Japanese archipelago: Implications for changes in composition with current flow

Marine Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2671-2685

  Nishizawa, Hideaki ^a   Naito, Yuta ^c   Suganuma, Hiroyuki ^d   Abe, Osamu ^e,f   Okuyama, Junichi ^a,b   Hirate, Koichi ^g   Tanaka, Shinichi ^d   Inoguchi, Emi ^d   Narushima, Koji ^d   Kobayashi, Kiyoshige ^h   Ishii, Hisakazu ⁱ   Tanizaki, Shigeo ⁱ   Kobayashi, Masato ^e   Goto, Akira ^c   Arai, Nobuaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Everlasting Nature of Asia   (Japan)

^e FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^g Okinawa Prefectural Fisheries and Ocean Research Center   (Japan)

^h KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Ishigaki Island Sea Turtle Research Group   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BREEDING SITE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TURTLE;

BONIN ISLANDS; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTHEAST ASIA; TOKYO [KANTO];

CHELONIA MYDAS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84884672810     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2261-1     Document Type: Article

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