Short-term movements of long-finned pilot whales Globicephala melas around the Faroe Islands

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-58

  Bloch, Dorete ^a   Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^b   Stefansson, Eyofinnur ^a   Mikkelsen, Bjarni ^a   Ofstad, Lise Helen ^c   Dietz, Rune ^d   Andersen, Liselotte Wesley ^e  

^a Faroese Museum of Natural History   (Faroe Islands)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c Faroese Fisheries Laboratory   (Faroe Islands)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e D   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Globicephala melas; Long finned pilot whale; Move merits; Satellite telemetry; The Faroe Islands

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS;

EID: 0037356358     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.2003.007     Document Type: Article

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