Abundance of small cetaceans in waters of the central Spanish Mediterranean

Marine Biology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 149-160

  Gómez De Segura, Amaia ^a   Crespo, E A ^b   Pedraza, S N ^b   Hammond, P S ^c   Raga, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CETACEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; GRAMPUS GRISEUS; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA COERULEOALBA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 33748987943     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0334-0     Document Type: Article

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