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Pollution on the Marine Turtle Nesting-beach in Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Harold F. Hirth
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.

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Short Communications & Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1987

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