Past and distant whaling and the rapid decline of sperm whales off the Galapagos Islands

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1387-1396

  Whitehead, Hal ^a   Christal, Jenny ^a   Dufault, Susan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOITATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPERM WHALE; WHALING;

PACIFIC, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MACROCEPHALUS; MAMMALIA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 0031457657     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.96246.x     Document Type: Article

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