Archie Carr
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American university professor, zoologist, herpetologist, conservationist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Archie Fairly Carr, Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida and an acclaimed writer on science and nature. He brought attention to the world's declining sea turtle populations due to over-exploitation and habitat loss. Wildlife refuges in Florida and Costa Rica have been named in his honor.
Archie Carr's Published Works
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Published Works
- New Perspectives on the Pelagic Stage of Sea Turtle Development (1987) (339)
- Handbook of Turtles (1952) (325)
- Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California (1952) (234)
- Impact of nondegradable marine debris on the ecology and survival outlook of sea turtles (1987) (224)
- Rips, FADS, and Little Loggerheads (1986) (194)
- The ecology and migrations of sea turtles. 7, The West Caribbean green turtle colony. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 162, article 1 (1978) (182)
- A contribution to the herpetology of Florida (1940) (177)
- Reproduction and migrations of the Ascension Island green turtle (Chelonia mydas) (1987) (174)
- BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES OF NESTING SEA TURTLES TO ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING (1992) (156)
- Social facilitation in green turtle siblings (1961) (147)
- VARIATION IN CLUTCH SIZE AND EGG SIZE IN THE GREEN TURTLE NESTING POPULATION AT TORTUGUERO, COSTA RICA (1989) (112)
- Reproductive biology of the Hawksbill Eretmochelys imbricata at Tortuguero, Costa Rica, with notes on the ecology of the species in the caribbean (1985) (91)
- Evidence of Passive Migration of Green Turtle Hatchlings in Sargassum (1980) (90)
- Site Fixity in the Caribbean Green Turtle (1972) (88)
- The ecology and migrations of sea turtles. 4, The green turtle in the Caribbean Sea. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 121, article 1 (1960) (83)
- The Ascension Island Green Turtle Colony (1975) (81)
- Ecologic Implications of Size and Growth in Chelonia (1970) (73)
- Some Problems of Sea Turtle Ecology (1980) (71)
- Apparent hibernation by the Atlantic loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta off cape canaveral, Florida (1980) (66)
- Modulated Reproductive Periodicity in Chelonia (1970) (62)
- Observations on the ecology and survival outlook of the hawksbill turtle (1975) (60)
- The ecology and migrations of sea turtles. 6, The hawksbill turtle in the Caribbean Sea. American Museum novitates ; no. 2248 (1966) (59)
- The ecology and migrations of sea turtles 5:Comparative features of isolated green turtle colonies (1962) (55)
- The green turtle in the Gulf of Aden and the Seychelles Islands (1970) (52)
- The Passing of the Fleet (1954) (49)
- Internesting Behavior of the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, at a Mid-Ocean Island Breeding Ground (1974) (49)
- Manual of sea turtle research and conservation techniques (1983) (48)
- Surveys of sea turtle populations and habitats in the western Atlantic (1982) (46)
- Orientation problems in the high seas travel and terrestrial movements of marine turtles (1963) (45)
- A Zoological Puzzle. (Book Reviews: So Excellent a Fishe. A Natural History of Sea Turtles) (1968) (40)
- Guide to the reptiles, amphibians, and fresh-water fishes of Florida (1955) (40)
- The Navigation of the Green Turtle (1965) (38)
- Panspecific Reproductive Convergence in Lepidochelys kempi (1963) (38)
- The ecology and migrations of sea turtles. 1, Results of field work in Florida, 1955. American Museum novitates ; no. 1793 (1956) (37)
- The ecology and migrations of sea turtles. 3, Dermochelys in Costa Rica. American Museum novitates ; no. 1958 (1959) (37)
- The Windward Road (1956) (35)
- Seafloor spreading theory and the odyssey of the green turtle (1974) (33)
- The case for long range chemoreceptive piloting in Chelonia (1972) (28)
- The sea turtle : so excellent a fishe (1986) (24)
- The windward road : adventures of a naturalist on remote Caribbean shores (1957) (23)
- Outline for a classification of animal habitats in Honduras (1950) (21)
- Transoceanic Migrations of the Green Turtle (1964) (19)
- High Jungles and Low (1953) (15)
- Dates of Frog Choruses in Florida (1940) (15)
- Conservation of Tropical Forests (1981) (15)
- The fishes of the Choluteca drainage of Southern Honduras (1950) (14)
- The Belize Barrier Reef: Status and prospects for conservation management (1985) (13)
- A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden (1994) (12)
- Extinction or Rescue for the Hawksbill? (1980) (12)
- A New Species of Cyprinodon from Lake Eustis, Florida (1936) (8)
- Natural history notes on the Atlantic loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta caretta (1955) (8)
- A Geckonid Lizard New to the Fauna of the United States (1939) (8)
- Alligators: dragons in distress (1967) (7)
- Caribbean green turtle: imperiled gift of the sea (1967) (7)
- A New Subspecies of Pseudemys floridana, with Notes on the floridana Complex (1938) (7)
- Notes on Escape Behavior in the Florida Marsh Rabbit (1939) (6)
- The land and wildlife of Africa (1965) (6)
- The Identity and Status of Two Turtles of the Genus Pseudemys (1935) (4)
- Status of the Mangrove Terrapin (1946) (4)
- A nest of the Atlantic leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea coriacea (Linnaeus), on the Atlantic coast of Florida, with a summary of American nesting records (1956) (4)
- Notes on Eggs and Young of the Lizard Rhineura floridana (1949) (4)
- Recruitment and remigration in a green turtle nesting colony (1970) (4)
- Guideposts of animal navigation (1962) (3)
- A new turtle from Florida, with notes on Pseudemys floridana mobiliensis (Holbrook) (1937) (3)
- Long-range recovery of a tagged yearling Chelonia on the east coast of North America (1969) (3)
- Mystery of the Missing Year (1984) (3)
- Familiar Reptiles and Amphibians of America@@@Life Nature Library: The Reptiles (1964) (2)
- Systematics and Distribution of Some Freshwater Fishes from Honduras and Nicaragua (1974) (2)
- Notes on the Habits of the Short-Tailed Snake, Stilosoma extenuatum Brown (1934) (2)
- Ulendo: Travels of a Naturalist In and Out of Africa (1993) (2)
- Returns of tagged pen-reared green turtles (1969) (2)
- INITIAL EXPERIMENTS WITH MIGRATING CHELONIA MYDAS USING TELEMETRY. (1969) (1)
- Chelonia depressa Garman re-investigated (1967) (1)
- Antillean terrapins / by T. Barbour and A. F. Carr, Jr. With nine plates. (1940) (1)
- Tropical forest conservation and estuarine ecology (1982) (1)
- A new Pseudemys from Sonora, Mexico. American Museum novitates ; no. 1181 (1942) (1)
- The Tropical Rain Forest (1953) (1)
- The land and wild-life of Africa / Archie Carr (1970) (0)
- Book Review:A Biogeography of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Gomez Farias Region, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Paul S. Martin (1959) (0)
- Index card, T. baurii, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (1936) (0)
- Notes on the cacao beetle (Steirastoma depressum) (0)
- Correspondence, December 10, 1936: laboratory operations (1936) (0)
- Index card, H. c. cinerea, H. gratiosa, H. femoralis, H. squirella, c.1935: laboratory research, species identification (1935) (0)
- Ants, Indians, And Little Dinosaurs (1975) (0)
- Index card, N. compressicauda, N. fasciata pictiventris, N. cyclopion floridanna, c.1936: laboratory research, species identification (1936) (0)
- Index card, P. floridana, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (1936) (0)
- The land and wild-life of Africa (1970) (0)
- Index card, T. louisianae, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (1935) (0)
- The reptiles / Archie Carr (1968) (0)
- Index card, C. sexlineatus, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (0)
- Index card, C. adamanteus, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (0)
- Correspondence, January 10, 1935: Bass fellows and visiting scientists (1935) (0)
- Elements of Ecology . George L. Clarke. Wiley, New York; Chapman & Hall, London, 1954. xiv + 534 pp. Illus. $7.50. (1955) (0)
- Index card, A. mississippiensis, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (0)
- Correspondence, April 28, 1937: Bass fellows and visiting scientists (1937) (0)
- Index card, K. steindachneri, K. bauri, c.1935: laboratory research, species identification (1935) (0)
- Index card, C. c. constrictor, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (1935) (0)
- Index card, A. carolinensis, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (1935) (0)
- Reptilia / Archie Carr (1980) (0)
- Index card, B. terrestris, B. quercicus, c.1935: laboratory research, species identification (0)
- Index card, Chelydra osceola, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (1935) (0)
- Eumeces in the Miami Area (1940) (0)
- Index card, A. piscivorous, c.1930s: laboratory research, species identification (1935) (0)
- Index card, F. similis, F. heteroclitus grandis, c.1935: laboratory research, species identification (0)
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