Occurrences of large sharks in the open waters of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 46, Issue 43-44, 2012, Pages 2701-2723

  Damalas, Dimitrios ^a,b   Megalofonou, Persefoni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

chondrichthyan; longline; Mediterranean; oceanic; shark

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; LONGLINING; OPEN OCEAN; PELAGIC FISHERY; POPULATION DECLINE; SHARK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (SOUTHEAST);

CHONDRICHTHYES; PRIONACE GLAUCA; RHIZOPRIONODON ACUTUS;

EID: 84870053093     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2012.716864     Document Type: Article

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