Habitat use and preliminary demographic evaluation of the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) in the Cilician Basin (Eastern Mediterranean)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 417-431

  Gucu, Ali Cemal ^a   Gucu, Gul ^a   Orek, Hasan ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cilician Basin; Conservation; Demography; Habitat use; Monachus monachus

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT USE; PINNIPED;

CILICIAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

MONACHUS; MONACHUS MONACHUS; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0842332249     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00234-9     Document Type: Article

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