Expeditions
Friends of the Chagos Expedition
- Field of study
- Coral cover; Acropora ecology; Fish species list, shark counts, terrestrial fauna; Bird counts; Fungi collection for species list; Nudibranch species list and ecology.
- Vessel(s)
- M/Y Inga-Viola & MY Aztec Lady (2 x 18 m motor sailing vessels)
- Funder(s)
- Overseas Territories Environnment Programme
- Start
- 2/1996
- End
- 18/3/1996
- Description
- Coral cover; Acropora ecology; fish species list, shark counts, terrestrial fauna; bird counts; fungi collection for species list; Nudibranch species list and ecology.
- Expedition leader
- David Bellamy
- Expedition leader email
- Members
- Publications
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- The insects of the Chagos Archipelago - 1
- The coconut or robber crab Birgus latro in the Chagos Archipelago and its captive culture at London Zoo - 1
- A revised checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean - 1
- Opisthobranch molluscs from the Chagos archipelago, central Indian Ocean - 1
- An annotated checklist of the Chagos Archipelago Terrestrial Fauna (omitting birds) recorded during the 1996 Friends of the Chagos expedition - 1
- Some fungi of Indian Ocean islands - 1
- Sea turtle populations and habitats in the Chagos Archipelago - 1
- Sex steroid concentrations in immature hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Chagos Archipelago - 1
- Population genetic structure and developmental migrations of sea turtles in the Chagos Archipelago and adjacent regions inferred from mtDNA sequence variation. - 1
- Sites
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- Ile Boddam
- Ile de Poule
- Ile du Sel
- I Anglaise
- Ile Takamaka
- Ile de la Passe
- Ile Jacobin
- Ile Sepulture
- Ile Diamant
- Petite Ile Mapou
- I Pierre
- I Parasole
- Ile du Coin
- Ile YeYe
- Nelsons Island
- Middle Brother - Ile du Milieu
- North Brother - Ile du Nord
- South Brother - Ile du Sud
- Ile Lubine
- Ile Sipaille
- Ile Tattamucca
- Danger Island
- Diego Garcia
- Moresby Island