Note a survey of the critically endangered mediterranean monk seal, monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779) along the coast of northern cyprus

Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-82

  Gucu, Ali Cemal ^a   Ok, Meltem ^a   Sakinan, Serdar ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PINNIPED; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ASIA; CYPRUS; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

MONACHUS MONACHUS;

EID: 70350137327     PISSN: 15659801     EISSN: 22244662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJEE.55.1.77     Document Type: Article

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