Fine scale daily movements and habitat use of East Pacific green turtles at a shallow coastal lagoon in Baja California Sur, Mexico
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a Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, USGS Biological Resources Division, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA b Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Departmento de Biología Marina, Carretera al Sur km 5.5, 23080 La Paz, BCS, Mexico c Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Technologies Laboratory, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d Ocean Revolution and California Academy of Sciences, Davenport, CA 95017, USA
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