Identifying critical areas and habitat preferences of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 244, Issue , 2002, Pages 247-255

  Ingram, Simon N ^a   Rogan, Emer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphins; Conservation; Critical areas; Habitat use

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DOLPHIN; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE;

IRELAND; SHANNON ESTUARY;

CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0037196035     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps244247     Document Type: Article

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