Daily species checklist from whale-watching - Studying the research potential with an Azorean case study

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1283-1288

  Gomes Pereira, José Nuno D S ^a  

^a SCIAENA Association for Marine Sciences and Cooperation   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Azores; Cetacean; Checklist; Ecology; Sea surface temperature; Whale watching

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; TIMESCALE; WHALE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA SP.; ORCINUS ORCA; PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS;

EID: 51349124476     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408001070     Document Type: Article

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