Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management

Biological Conservation

Volumn 164, Issue , 2013, Pages 107-122

  Hammond, Philip S ^a   Macleod, Kelly ^a   Berggren, Per ^b   Borchers, David L ^a   Burt, Louise ^a   Cañadas, Ana ^c   Desportes, Geneviève ^d   Donovan, Greg P ^e   Gilles, Anita ^f   Gillespie, Douglas ^g   Gordon, Jonathan ^h   Hiby, Lex ⁱ   Kuklik, Iwona ^j   Leaper, Russell ^g   Lehnert, Kristina ^f   Leopold, Mardik ^k   Lovell, Phil ⁱ   Øien, Nils ^l   Paxton, Charles G M ^a   Ridoux, Vincent ^m   Rogan, Emer ⁿ   Samarra, Filipa ^a   Scheidat, Meike ^f   Sequeira, Marina ^o   Siebert, Ursula ^f   Skov, Henrik ^p   Swift, René ^a   Tasker, Mark L ^q   Teilmann, Jonas ^r   Van Canneyt, Olivier ^m   Vázquez, José Antonio ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ALNITAK Marine Environment Research Center   (Spain)

^d The Red House ^*  (Spain)

^e International Whaling Commission   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE   (United States)

^h Ecologic UK   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ University of Gdansk ^*  (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^k WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^l INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^m UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^o Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade   (Portugal)

^p DHI   (Denmark)

^q JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

^r AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

more..

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Bycatch; Common dolphin; Conservation status; Habitats Directive; Harbour porpoise; Line transect sampling; Minke whale; North Sea; SCANS; White beaked dolphin

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BYCATCH; CETACEAN; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION STATUS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EUROPEAN UNION; HARBOR; LINE TRANSECT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84876433065     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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