An insight into the status of the striped dolphins, Stenella coeruleoalba, of the southern Tyrrhenian Sea

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1321-1326

  Fortuna, Caterina Maria ^a   Canese, Simonepietro ^a   Giusti, Michela ^a   Revelli, Eletta ^a,c   Consoli, Pierpaolo ^a   Florio, Giuseppina ^a   Greco, Silvestro ^a   Romeo, Teresa ^a   Andaloro, Franco ^a   Fossi, Maria Cristina ^b   Lauriano, Giancarlo ^a  

^a Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONSERVATION STATUS; DOLPHIN; FISHERY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; TRANSECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA COERULEOALBA;

EID: 35348959992     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002531540705669X     Document Type: Article

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