Review of status and threats to river cetaceans and recommendations for their conservation

Environmental Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 189-206

  Smith, Alison M ^a   Smith, Brian D ^a  

^a WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inia; Lipotes; Neophocaena; Orcaella; Platanista; River dolphins; River ecosystems; Sotalia; Water development

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844449708     PISSN: 11818700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/a99-002     Document Type: Article

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