Biological consequences of global warming: Does sea surface temperature affect cetacean distribution in the western Ligurian Sea?

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1145-1152

  Azzellino, A ^a,b   Gaspari, S A ^c   Airoldi, S ^b   Lanfredi, C ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cetaceans; Climate change; Distribution; Habitat; Western Ligurian Sea

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CETACEA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE; STENELLA (CETACEA); STENELLA COERULEOALBA;

EID: 51349118286     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408000751     Document Type: Article

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