Dolphins in a bottle: Abundance, residency patterns and conservation of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the semi-closed eutrophic Amvrakikos Gulf Greece

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 130-146

  Bearzi, Giovanni ^a   Agazzi, Stefano ^a   Bonizzoni, Silvia ^a   Costa, Marina ^a   Azzellino, Arianna ^a,b  

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

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abundance; Amvrakikos gulf; Cetaceans; Conservation; Ecology; Mediterranean sea; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DOLPHIN; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AMVRAKIKOS GULF; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 41149113450     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.843     Document Type: Article

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