Marine open cage aquaculture in the eastern mediterranean sea: A new trophic resource for bottlenose dolphins

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 440, Issue , 2011, Pages 255-266

  Piroddi, Chiara ^a,b   Bearzi, Giovanni ^b   Christensen, Villy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Ecosystem modelling approach; Fish farms Ionian; Sea

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; ARCHIPELAGO; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CAGE CULTURE; DOLPHIN; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARICULTURE; PREY CAPTURE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC STATUS; WATER COLUMN;

GREECE; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PISCES; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 80055080535     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09319     Document Type: Article

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