Spatiotemporal prediction models of cetacean habitats in the mid-western North Atlantic Ocean (from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, U.S.A. to Nova Scotia, Canada)

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 920-939

  Hamazaki, Toshihide ^a,b  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Cetaceans; Geographical Information System; Habitat prediction model; Western North Atlantic Ocean

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; GIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; MAMMALIA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; PHYSETER CATODON; STENELLA (CETACEA); TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 0036774159     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2002.tb01082.x     Document Type: Article

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