Cetacean distribution and relative abundance on the central-eastern and the southeastern Bering Sea shelf with reference to oceanographic domains

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2 SPEC ISS., 2002, Pages 249-261

  Moore, S E ^a   Waite, J M ^a   Friday, N A ^a   Honkalehto, T ^a  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY;

ECHO SOUNDER BACKSCATTER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CETACEAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

(SOUTHEAST); BERING SEA;

ACRONICTA LEPORINA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; PHOCOENA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; PHOCOENOIDES DALLI; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; PSEUDOMUGIL;

EID: 0036035650     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(02)00082-4     Document Type: Review

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