Ranging patterns of bottlenose dolphins living in oceanic waters: Implications for population structure

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-192

  Silva, Mónica A ^a,b,c   Prieto, Rui ^b   Magalhães, Sara ^b   Seabra, Maria I ^b   Santos, Ricardo S ^b   Hammond, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; DOLPHIN; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

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

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 57049132602     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-1075-z     Document Type: Article

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