Long-Term Turtle Declines: Protected Is a Verb, Not an Outcome

Long-term studies on wildlife populations are necessary to track population abundance and shifts in demography over time, yet such studies are difficult to plan, fund, and conduct and are therefore...

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Copeia

• Publication date

  2019-09-13

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1643/ch-19-177
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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