Aerial surveys for coastal dolphins: Abundance of Hector's dolphins off the South Island west coast, New Zealand

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 477-490

  Slooten, Elisabeth ^a   Dawson, Stephen Michael ^a   Rayment, William Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abundance survey; Aerial survey; Cephalorhynchus hectori; Hector's dolphin; Line transect survey

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; CETACEAN; COASTAL ZONE; DOLPHIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVEY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

CEPHALORHYNCHUS; CEPHALORHYNCHUS HECTORI; CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3943106208     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2004.tb01173.x     Document Type: Review

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