Seasonal fluctuations in occurrence of inshore Bryde's whales in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, with notes on feeding and multispecies associations

African Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 403-414

  Penry, G S ^a,b,c   Cockcroft, V G ^b   Hammond, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Balaenoptera edeni; chlorophyll a; generalised linear models; multispecies associations; seasonality; SST

Indexed keywords

BAY; CHLOROPHYLL A; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DOLPHIN; ENCOUNTER RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FEEDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WHALE; WIND VELOCITY;

PLETTENBERG BAY; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA EDENI; CETACEA; DELPHINUS CAPENSIS; DELPHINUS DELPHIS; MORUS CAPENSIS;

EID: 84856087535     PISSN: 1814232X     EISSN: 18142338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2011.637617     Document Type: Article

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