Cetacean sightings off the Fiordland coastline: Analysis of commercial marine mammal viewing data 1996-99

Science for Conservation

Volumn , Issue 187, 2002, Pages 5-42

  Lusseau, David ^a   Slooten, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abundance estimates; Bottlenose dolphin; Cetaceans; Common dolphin; Dusky dolphin; Fiordland; Humpback whale; Long finned pilot whale; Minke whale; New Zealand; Orca; Sightings; Southern right whale; Sperm whale

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NEW ZEALAND; TASMAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; BALAENIDAE; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; DELPHINIDAE; DELPHINUS; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; EUBALAENA AUSTRALIS; GLOBICEPHALA; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; LAGENORHYNCHUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS OBSCURUS; MAMMALIA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; ORCINUS ORCA; PHYSETER CATODON; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0036167011     PISSN: 11732946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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