The significance of stranding data as indicators of cetacean populations at sea: Modelling the drift of cetacean carcasses

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 278-290

  Peltier, H ^a   Dabin, W ^a   Daniel, P ^b   Van Canneyt, O ^a   Doremus G ^a   Huon, M ^a   Ridoux, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Common dolphins Delphinus delphis; Drift model; Harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena; Indicators; Stranding rate; Strandings

Indexed keywords

COMMON DOLPHINS DELPHINUS DELPHIS; DRIFT MODEL; HARBOUR PORPOISE; STRANDING RATE; STRANDINGS; HARBOUR PORPOISES PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; STRANDING RATES;

INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MAMMALS; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECOVERY; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); POPULATION STATISTICS;

BYCATCH; DATA ACQUISITION; DOLPHIN; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PORPOISE; STRANDING; TAGGING; BIOINDICATOR; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [FRANCE]; FRANCE;

CETACEA; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; MAMMALIA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 83455181463     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.11.014     Document Type: Article

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