Entries for tag "Baja California"
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wallacejnichols
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Aug. 1, 2003
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WHEN WALLACE J. NICHOLS first came to Mexico’s Baja California peninsula as a graduate student in 1991, he would have been surprised had someone told him what he’d be doing on a warm spring day 12 years later. Accompanied by a handful of college students and other volunteers, the sea…
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wallacejnichols
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May 1, 2003
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Nichols, WJ. 2003. Biology and conservation of sea turtles in Baja California, Mexico. Doctoral thesis. University of Arizona. 488 pp. ABSTRACTI studied the in-water anthropogenic impacts on sea turtles, origins of sea turtles on foraging and developmental areas, their migration routes, and described regionally appropriate conservation needs. Sea turtles inhabiting…
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 9, 2003
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Bird, K, WJ Nichols and CR Tambiah. 2003. The value of local knowledge in sea turtle conservation: A case from Baja Califorania, Mexico. In: Putting Fishers’ Knowledge to Work: Conference Proceedings, August 27-30, 2001. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 2003 Volume 11 Number 1. Pages 178-183. ABSTRACT The use of sea…
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 1, 2003
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Jeffret A. Seminoff, Wallace J. Nichols, Antonio Resendiz, and Louise Brooks, Occurrence of hawksbill turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata (Reptilia: Cheloniidae), near the Baja California Peninsula, México, Pacific Science 57(1): 9-16. Abstract From 1997 to 2001 the occurrence of hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) was characterized at neritic foraging habitats along the Pacific…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 3, 2002
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By Deborah Knight To be an endangered sea turtle near Punta Abreojos on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula is to be a lucky animal. In this remote fishing village, the local fishing cooperative cracks down on any member caught with a turtle. For the first offense, you lose fishing privileges for three…
