Distribution and abundance of bottle-nosed Dolphins Tursiops Truncatus (Montagu) in the Shannon Estuary

Biology and Environment

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-9

  Berrow, Simon D ^a   Holmes, Brian ^a   Kiely, Oliver R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHINS; DISTRIBUTION; MAMMALS; POPULATION NUMBER; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOURISM; WHALE-WATCHING;

IRELAND, SHANNON ESTUARY;

EID: 0030378170     PISSN: 07917945     EISSN: 2009003X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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