Bottlenose dolphin abundance in the NW Mediterranean: Addressing heterogeneity in distribution

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 275, Issue , 2004, Pages 275-287

  Forcada, Jaume ^a   Gazo, Manel ^b   Aguilar, Alex ^b   Gonzalvo, Joan ^b   Fernández Contreras, Mar ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abundance; Aerial survey; Availability bias; Balearic Islands; Balearic Sea; Bottlenose dolphin; Conservation; Covariate analysis; Line transect; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CONSERVATION; DOLPHIN; HETEROGENEITY; LINE TRANSECT; POPULATION DECLINE;

BALEARIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CORYPHAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; STENELLA COERULEOALBA; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4043171910     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps275275     Document Type: Review

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