| Description |
583 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Notes on the behavioral ecology of sea turtles / Archie Carr -- A review of sea turtle reproduction / L.M. Ehrhart -- The role of reproductive physiology in the conservation of sea turtles / David Wm. Owens -- Factors influencing beach selection by nesting sea turtles / Jeanne A. Mortimer -- Nesting behavior of sea turtles with emphasis on physical and behavioral determinants of nesting success or failure / J.R. Hendrickson -- Temperature dependence of sexual differentiation in sea turtles : implications for conservation practices / N. Mrosovsky and C.L. Yntema -- Behavioral ecology of the West Caribbean green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in the internesting habitat / Anne Meylan -- Nesting cycles in sea turtles - typical or atypical? / George R. Hughes -- Sea turtle migration : evidence from tag returns / Anne Meylan -- Feeding ecology of sea turtles / Jeanne A. Mortimer -- The consequences of herbivory for the life history pattern of the Caribbean green turtle, Chelonia mydas / Karen A. Bjorndal -- Growth rates of immature green turtles in the Hawaiian Archipelago / George H. Balazs -- Apparent hibernation by sea turtles in North American waters / Larry Ogren and Charles McVea Jr. -- Estimation of population size in sea turtles / Anne Meylan -- Non-human predators of sea turtles and their control / Stephen E. Stancyk -- A model for diagnosis of populations of olive ridleys and green turtles of West Pacific tropical coasts / René Márquez M., Cuauhtémoc Peñaflores S., Aristóteles Villanueva O., and Juan Díaz F. -- The population of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle in the Gulf of Mexico - Lepidochelys kempii / René Márquez M., Aristóteles Villanueva O., and Manuel Sanchez Perez -- An experimental population model for the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta raretta) / James I. Richardson and Thelma H. Richardson -- Historical review of the decline of the green turtle and the hawksbill / F. Wayne King -- Historical decline of loggerhead, ridley, and leatherback sea turtles / James Perran Ross -- Sea turtles of the Pacific coast of Mexico / Kim Cliffton, Dennis Oscar Cornejo, and Richard S. Felger -- Status of sea turtles along the Pacific coast of Middle America / Stephen E. Cornelius -- Status of sea turtle populations in the central eastern Pacific / Derek Green and Fernando Ortiz-Crespo -- Status of sea turtles in the southeastern Pacific: emphasis on Perú / Coppelia Hays Brown and William M. Brown -- Status of sea turtles in the central Pacific Ocean / George H. Balazs -- Marine turtles of the South Pacific / Peter C.H. Pritchard -- Marine turtles of Micronesia / Peter C.H. Pritchard -- Subsistence hunting of turtles in the western Pacific: the Caroline Islands / Mike A. McCoy -- Status of marine turtle populations in Papua New Guinea / C. Sylvia Spring -- Subsistence hunting of marine turtles in Papua New Guinea / C. Sylvia Spring -- The status of Australian sea turtle populations / Colin J. Limpus -- Subsistence hunting of sea turtles in Australia / John Kowarsky -- Sea turtles in the waters adjacent to Japan / Itaru Uchida and Masaharu Nishiwaki -- Distribution of sea turtles in China seas / Huang Chu-Chien -- The status of research, exploitation, and conservation of marine turtles in the Philippines / Nelma Carrascal de Celis -- The status of sea turtle populations in East Malaysia and the South China Sea / G.S. de Silva -- Status and conservation of estuarine and sea turtles in West Malaysian waters / Siow Kuan Tow and Edward O. Moll -- Marine turtles in Indonesia / Ismu Sutanto Suwelo, Njoman Sumertha Nuitja, and Iman Soetrisno -- Sea turtle populations of Indonesia and Thailand / Nicholas V.C. Polunin and Njoman Sumertha Nuitja -- Status of sea turtles in the eastern Indian Ocean / C.S. Kar and Satish Bhaskar -- Review of sea turtles in the Arabian area / James Perran Ross and Mohammed Amour Barwani -- Status of sea turtles in the central western Indian Ocean / Jack Frazier -- Subsistence hunting in the Indian Ocean / Jack Frazier -- Conservation of sea turtles in the southern Africa region / George R. Hughes -- Marine turtles of the eastern Atlantic Ocean / L.D. Brongersrna -- Sea turtles in the eastern Mediterranean and northern Red Sea / Igal Sella -- Status of sea turtle populations (Caretta c. caretta and Chelonia m. mydas) in the northern Mediterranean Sea, Turkey / Remzi Geldiay, Tufan Koray and Süleyman Balik -- Status of sea turtle populations nesting in Surinam with notes on sea turtles nesting in Guyana and French Guiana / Joop P. Schulz -- The cultural context of sea turtle subsistence hunting in the Caribbean and problems caused by commercial exploitation / Bernard Nietschmann -- A historical review of the status of sea turtle populations in the western Gulf of Mexico / Henry H. Hildebrand -- Options and limitations in the conservation of sea turtles / David Ehrenfeld -- Farming and ranching as a strategy for sea turtle conservation / Henry A. Reichart -- Does sea turtle aquaculture benefit conservation? / C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. -- Headstarting the Kemp's ridley turtle, Lepidochelys kempi / Edward F. Klima and James P. McVey -- Worldwide incidental capture of sea turtles / Hilburn O. Hillestad, J.I. Richardson, Charles McVea Jr., and J.M. Watson Jr. -- Development of a sea turtle excluder shrimp trawl for the southeast U.S. penaeid shrimp fishery / Wilber R. Seidel and Charles McVea Jr. -- Recovered sea turtle populations and U.S. recovery team efforts / Peter C.H. Pritchard -- Planning for protection of sea turtle habitat / Stephen V. Shabica -- Disruption of sea turtle habitat with emphasis on human influence / Ross Witham -- Conservation and management of sea turtles: a legal overview / Daniel Navid -- Problems of enforcing sea turtle conservation laws in developing countries / Edgardo D. Gomez -- Enforcement of restrictions on importation of sea turtle products / Clark R. Bavin -- Sea turtles, animals of divisible parts : international trade in sea turtle products / David Mack, Nicole Duplaix, and Susan Wells |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Sea turtles -- Congresses.
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Wildlife conservation -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Bjorndal, Karen A.
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Smithsonian Institution.
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World Wildlife Fund (U.S.)
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| LC no. |
82600180 |
| ISBN |
0874742439 (paperback) |
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