Beaked whale strandings on the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean, between 1866 and 2008

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1851-1864

  Otley, Helen ^a,b   Smith, John ^c   Dalebout, Merel L ^d  

^a Falkland Islands Government   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^c University of New South Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

beaked whale; Falkland Islands; Mesoplodon; South Atlantic Ocean; South Georgia; strandings; Ziphiidae

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEONATE; PREY AVAILABILITY; STRANDING; TEMPORAL RECORD; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER TEMPERATURE; WHALE;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS); SOUTH GEORGIA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA];

EID: 84868594924     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315411000749     Document Type: Article

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