The availability of resting and pupping habitat for the Critically Endangered Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus in the archipelago of Madeira

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Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 180-185

  Karamanlidis, Alexandras A ^a   Pires, Rosa ^b   Silva, Nadia Carina ^b   Neves, Henrique Costa ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Parque Natural da Madeira   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Caves; Habitat; Madeira; Marine protected areas; Mediterranean monk seal; Monachus monachus; Pupping

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HAULOUT BEHAVIOUR; PINNIPED;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; MADEIRA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MONACHUS; MONACHUS MONACHUS;

EID: 31344458481     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605304000328     Document Type: Article

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