Movement and home ranges of Dugongs around the Lease Islands, East Indonesia

Marine Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 179-193

  De Iongh, Hans H ^a   Langeveld, Paul ^a   Van Der Wal, Mark ^a  

^a Centre of Environmental Science   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultivation grazing; Dugong movements; Feeding ecology; Home range; Satellite telemetry

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; MARINE MAMMAL; MOVEMENT;

INDONESIA; LEASE ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; DUGONG DUGON; HALOPHILA; MAMMALIA; SIRENIA;

EID: 0032469363     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1998.tb00461.x     Document Type: Article

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