Estimates of the current global population size and historical trajectory for sperm whales

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 242, Issue , 2002, Pages 295-304

  Whitehead, Hal ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depletion; Physeter; Population; Sperm whale; Whaling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; WHALE; WHALING;

CETACEA; MACROCEPHALUS; MAMMALIA; PHYSETER; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 0037175221     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps242295     Document Type: Article

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