Movements of Mediterranean Monk Seals (Monachus monachus) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 256-261

  Adamantopoulou, Stella ^a   Androukaki, Evgenia ^a   Dendrinos, Panagiotis ^a   Kotomatas, Spyros ^a   Paravas, Vangelis ^a   Psaradellis, Marianna ^a   Tounta, Eleni ^a   Karamanlidis, Alexandros A ^a  

^a MOm/Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PINNIPED;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

MONACHUS MONACHUS;

EID: 84856147845     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.37.3.2011.256     Document Type: Article

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