Temporal trends in mortality and effects of by-catch on common bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in southern Brazil

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1865-1876

  Fruet, Pedro F ^a,b   Kinas, Paul G ^b   Da Silva, Kleber G ^c   Di Tullio, Juliana C ^a,b   Monteiro, Daniele S ^c   Rosa, Luciano Dalla ^b   Estima, Se'Rgio C ^c   Secchi, Eduardo R ^b  

^a Universidade Federal   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^c Núcleo de Educação e Monitoramento Ambiental ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

conservation; potential biological removal; Rio Grande do Sul; sex ratio; time series analysis; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH; COASTAL LAGOON; COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DOLPHIN; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISHING EFFORT; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES;

BRAZIL; PATOS LAGOON; RIO GRANDE DO SUL;

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 84868549035     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315410001888     Document Type: Article

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