Occurrence of Cuvier's beaked whales in the southern Adriatic Sea: Evidence of an important Mediterranean habitat

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 359-362

  Holcer, Draško ^a,b   Di Sciara, Giuseppe Notarbartolo ^c   Fortuna, Caterina Maria ^b   Lazar, Bojan ^a,b   Onofri, Vlado ^d  

^a CROATIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Croatia)

^b Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation   (Croatia)

^c Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HISTORICAL RECORD; MONITORING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WHALE;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CETACEA; HYPEROODON AMPULLATUS; ZIPHIIDAE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

EID: 33847340249     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407055075     Document Type: Article

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