Hawksbill sea turtles: can phylogenetics inform harvesting?
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Hawksbill sea turtles: can phylogenetics inform harvesting?
In their recent articles, Mortimer et al. (2007) and Bowen et al. (2007) imply that historical declines in hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) populations in the Caribbean together with new phylogenetic data provide solid evidence that hawksbills cannot be harvested on a sustainable level. We suggest that broad inferences on the impacts of harvesting based on phylogenetic data alone a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Ecology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0962-1083,1365-294X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03356.x