Scale-dependent correlation of sperm whale distribution with environmental features and productivity in the South Pacific

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 135, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 1-9

  Jaquet, Nathalie ^a   Whitehead, Hal ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll concentration; Distribution; Principal component analyses; Spatial scale; Sperm whale; Sub surface biomass; Temporal scale; Underwater topography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029739296     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps135001     Document Type: Article

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