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Four Decades of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Strandings on Hawai'i Island (1983-2022): Causes and Trends
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- 1. Department of Marine Science, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA. Current address: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33149, USA. E-mail: skylarde@hawaii.edu (Dentlinger)
- 2. Department of Marine Science, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA.
- 3. Department of Mathematics, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA. *Correspondence: E-mail: gradysw@hawaii.edu (Weyenberg)
- 4. Sea Turtle Research Program, Hawai'i Preparatory Academy, Kamuela, Hawaii 96743, USA. E-mail: laura.jim@hpa.edu (Jim)
- 5. Sea Turtle Research Program, Hawai'i Preparatory Academy, Kamuela, Hawaii 96743, USA. E-mail: mrice@hpa.edu (Rice)
- 6. Golden Honu Services of Oceania, Honolulu 96821, Hawaii, USA. E-mail: itsahonuworldinhawaii@hotmail.com (Balazs)
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Dentlinger, Skylar, McDermid, Karla J., Weyenberg, Grady, Jim, Laura M. R., Rice, Marc R., Balazs, George H. (2024): Four Decades of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Strandings on Hawai'i Island (1983-2022): Causes and Trends. Zoological Studies 63 (16): 1-14, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2024.63-16, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14701681
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