Population structure of harbour porpoises in the Baltic region: Evidence of separation based on geometric morphometric comparisons

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1669-1676

  Galatius, Anders ^a   Kinze, Carl Christian ^b   Teilmann, Jonas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Belt Sea; conservation; geometric morphometrics; harbour porpoise; morphological adaptation; North Sea; population structure; skull

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; GEOMETRY; MORPHOMETRY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PORPOISE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; DENMARK; FINLAND; GERMANY; NORTH SEA; POLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 84868553821     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315412000513     Document Type: Article

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