Seasonal changes in the local distribution of Yangtze finless porpoises related to fish presence

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 308-324

  Kimura, Satoko ^a   Akamatsu, Tomonari ^b   Li, Songhai ^c   Dong, Lijun ^a   Wang, Kexiong ^a   Wang, Ding ^a   Arai, Nobuaki ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impact; Bioacoustics; Cetacean; Dolphin; Echolocation; Odontocete; Prey availability; Towed passive acoustic monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOACOUSTICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DETECTION METHOD; DREDGING; ECHOLOCATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MONITORING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PORPOISE; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE; YANGTZE BASIN;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; NEOPHOCAENA; NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84860229955     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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