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Hatch rates of green turtle Chelone mydas (L.) eggs in the beach hatchery of the turtle islands of Sarawak varied between 53% and 96% during the period 1970–1990. The hatch rates of natural or in situ nests were 71.8 + 18.4% and 65.3 + 5.9% at Talang-Talang Besar and Talang-Talang Kecil respectively. There was no significant difference between the hatch rates of in situ nests and replanted hatchery nests in both the Talang-Talang islands.
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Leh, C.M.U. (1994). Hatch rates of green turtle eggs in Sarawak. In: Sasekumar, A., Marshall, N., Macintosh, D.J. (eds) Ecology and Conservation of Southeast Asian Marine and Freshwater Environments including Wetlands. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 98. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0958-1_17
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