Replacement dolphins? Social restructuring of a resident pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, after two major hurricanes

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-59

  Elliser, Cindy R ^a,b   Herzing, Denise L ^a,b  

^a Wild Dolphin Project   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural ecology; Bottlenose dolphin; Climate variations; Coefficients of association; Emigration; Immigration; Social structure; SOCPROG; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOLPHIN; EMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HURRICANE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

BAHAMAS;

TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 78650532341     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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