Natural beaches produce more hatchling marine turtles than developed beaches, despite regional differences in hatching success
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Natural beaches confer fitness benefits to nesting marine turtles.
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0693