Effects of tourist boats on the behaviour of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins off the south coast of Zanzibar

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-99

  Christiansen, Fredrik ^a   Lusseau, David ^b   Stensland, Eva ^a   Berggren, Per ^a,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural budget; Behavioural response; Dolphin tourism; East Africa; Markov chains; Tourism impact; Tursiops aduncus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BOATING; DOLPHIN; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH VESSEL; TOURISM;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS ADUNCUS;

EID: 77952311639     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00265     Document Type: Article

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