Declining Abundance of Beaked Whales (Family Ziphiidae) in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Moore, Jeffrey E ^a   Barlow, Jay P ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BEAKED WHALE; FISHERY; MAMMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; UNITED STATES; WHALE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WHALES;

BERARDIUS BAIRDII; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON; ZIPHIIDAE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

EID: 84872463652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052770     Document Type: Article

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