Nesting Space Dynamics and Its Relationship with the Arribada of Olive Ridley Turtles at Gahirmatha Rookery, East Coast of India

Sea turtles use beaches that are suitable for the successful development of embryos. Heavy nesting on beaches may have detrimental effects on the survival of embryos as the result of the destruction of nests by conspecifics and physiological stress of the incubation substrate. We studied nesting spa...

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Published in:	Journal of herpetology Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 381 - 386
Main Authors:	Behera, Satyaranjan, Tripathy, Basudev, Sivakumar, K., Choudhury, B. C., Dutta, S. K., Pandav, Bivash
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 01.12.2018 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Subjects:	beaches coasts CONSERVATION females hatching India Lepidochelys olivacea nesting prediction sea turtles India
ISSN:	0022-1511, 1937-2418, 1937-2418
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