Assessment of Management to Mitigate Anthropogenic Effects on Large Whales

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 121-133

  Van Der Hoop, Julie M ^a   Moore, Michael J ^a   Barco, Susan G ^b   Cole, Timothy V N ^c   Daoust, Pierre Yves ^d   Henry, Allison G ^c   Mcalpine, Donald F ^e   Mclellan, William A ^f   Wimmer, Tonya ^g   Solow, Andrew R ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Virginia Aquarium   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^e NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^g Nova Scotia Museum   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Evaluation of management mitigation efforts; Human interaction; Large whales; Mortality; Necropsy; Vessel strike

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FISHING GEAR; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WHALE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WHALE;

ANIMALS; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WHALES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); CANADA; UNITED STATES;

CETACEA;

EID: 84872262117     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01934.x     Document Type: Article

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