Pupping habitat use in the Mediterranean monk seal: A long-term study

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 615-628

  Dendrinos, Panagiotis ^a   Karamanlidis, Alexandros A ^a   Kotomatas, Spyros ^a   Legakis, Anastasios ^b   Tounta, Eleni ^a   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^c  

^a MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cave use; Conservation; Endangered species; Generalized linear models; Greece; Management; Mediterranean monk seal; Model averaging; Monachus monachus; Reproductive behavior

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PINNIPED; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

MONACHUS MONACHUS;

EID: 34250320977     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2007.00121.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Adamantopoulou, S., E. Androukaki and S. Kotomatas. 1999. The distribution of the Mediterranean monk seal based on an information network. Contributions to the Zoogeography and Ecology of the Eastern Mediterranean Region 1 : 399 404.
2. Adamantopoulou, S., K. Anagnostopoulou, P. Dendrinos, S. Kotomatas, N. Labadariou, V. Pipinis, G. Stroufliotis, E. Tounta and V. Zavras. 2000. Conserving critical habitats for the Mediterranean monk seal in Greece through the creation of a network of protected areas. Page 33 in Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference, European Cetacean Society, Cork, Ireland.
3. Baillie, J. E. M., C. Hilton-taylor and S. N. Stuart. 2004. 2004 IUCN red list of threatened species. A global species assessment. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
4. Brook, B. W., L.W. Traill and C. J. A. Bradshaw. 2006. Minimum viable population size and global extinction risk are unrelated. Ecology Letters 9 : 375 382.
5. Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson. 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference: A practical information-theoretic approach. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, New York.
6. Dendrinos, P., E. Tounta, S. Kotomatas and A. Kottas. 1994. Recent data on the Mediterranean monk seal population of the Northern Sporades. Bios (Macedonia/Greece) 2 : 11 16.
7. Dendrinos, P., S. Kotomatas and E. Tounta. 1999a. Monk seal pup production in the National Marine Park of Alonissos-N. Sporades. Contributions to the Zoogeography and Ecology of the Eastern Mediterranean Region 1 : 413 419.
8. Dendrinos, P., E. Tounta and S. Kotomatas. 1999b. A field method for age estimation of Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) pups. Page 48 in Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Maui, Hawaii.
9. Fox, J. 1997. Applied regression analysis, linear models and related methods. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
10. Fox, J. 2002. An R and S-plus companion to applied regression. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
11. Gazo, M., F. Aparicio, M.A. Cedenilla, J. F. Layna and L. M. Gonzalez. 2000. Pup survival in the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) colony at Cabo Blanco Peninsula (Western Sahara-Mauritania). Marine Mammal Science 16 : 158 168.
12. Gonzalez, L. M., A. Aguilar, L. F. Lopez Jurado and E. Grau. 1997. Status and distribution of the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus on the Cabo Blanco Peninsula (Western Sahara Mauritania) in 1993-1994. Biological Conservation 80 : 225 233.
13. Gonzalez, L. M., M.A. Cedenilla, P. F. Larrinoa, J. F. Layna and F. Aparicio. 2002. Changes in the breeding variables of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) colony of Cabo Blanco Peninsula after a mass mortality episode. Mammalia 6 : 173 182.
14. Gucu, A. C., G. Gucu and H. Orek. 2004. Habitat use and preliminary demographic evaluation of the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) in the Cilician Basin (Eastern Mediterranean). Biological Conservation 16 : 417 431.
15. Johnson, W. M., and D. M. Lavigne. 1999. Monk seals in antiquity. The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) in ancient history and literature. The Netherlands Commission for International Nature Protection, Leiden, Mededelingen 35 : 1 101.
16. Johnson, W. M., A.A. Karamanlidis., P. Dendrinos, P. F. De Larrinoa, M. Gazo, L.M. Gonzalez, H. Güçlüsoy, R. Pires and M. Schnellmann. 2006. Monk seal fact files. Biology, behaviour, status and conservation of the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus. The Monachus Guardian. http://www.monachus-guardian.org.htm (accessed 20 September 2006).
17. Karamanlidis, A. A., R. Pires, N. C. Silva and H. C. Neves. 2004a. The availability of resting and pupping habitat for the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus in the archipelago of Madeira. Oryx 38 : 180 185.
18. Karamanlidis, A. A., P. Dendrinos, E. Tounta and S. Kotomatas. 2004b. Monitoring human activity in an area dedicated to the protection of the endangered Mediterranean monk seal. Coastal Management 32 : 293 306.
19. Kouroutos, V., D. Papapanayotou and P. Kokkinia. 1986. Observations on the behaviour of the monk seal, Monachus monachus, in the N. Sporades, Greece. Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 12 : 249.
20. Layna, J. E., M.A. Cedenilla, F. Aparicio and L. M. Gonzalez. 1999. Observations of parturition in the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus). Marine Mammal Science 15 : 879 882.
21. Mursaloglu, B. 1986. Pup-mother-environment relations in the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1979), on Turkish coasts. Communications of the Faculty of Science of the University of Ankara, Series C 4 : 1 8.
22. Panou, A., J. Jacobs and D. Panos. 1993. The endangered Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus in the Ionian Sea, Greece. Biological Conservation 64 : 129 140.
23. Schultze-Westrum, T. 1977. Mönchsrobben im Nord-Sporaden Gebiet. Oryx 13 : 421.
24. Sergeant, D., J. Boulva, F. Berkes and K. Ronald. 1978. Recent status of Monachus monachus, the Mediterranean monk seal. Biological Conservation 14 : 259 287.