Primary production required to support bottlenose dolphins in a salt marsh estuarine creek system

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 358-373

  Young, Robert F ^a   Phillips, Heather D ^a  

^a Wall College of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphins; Carbon budget; Ecological model; Primary production; Salt marsh; Trophic transfer; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

DOLPHIN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PREY AVAILABILITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SALTMARSH;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0036239067     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2002.tb01043.x     Document Type: Article

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