Skin lesions and physical deformities of coastal and offshore common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Santa Monica Bay and adjacent areas, California

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 66-71

  Bearzi, Maddalena ^a   Rapoport, Shana ^b   Chau, Jason ^a   Saylan, Charles ^a  

^a Ocean Conservation Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEFORMATION; DISEASE; DOLPHIN; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LESION; SKIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CLASSIFICATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; MALE; SKIN DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; MALE; SKIN DISEASES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA MONICA BAY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 64849112320     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.2.66     Document Type: Article

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43. The field research was funded by Ocean Conservation Society and Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission. Thanks to all the Los Angeles Dolphin Project assistants. Special acknowledgments to ESRI for ArcGIS software and training, Maptech for PC Chart Navigator software, and IFAW for Logger software. Fieldwork was carried out