Dredging displaces bottlenose dolphins from an urbanised foraging patch

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 396-402

  Pirotta, Enrico ^a   Laesser, Barbara Eva ^a   Hardaker, Andrea ^a   Riddoch, Nicholas ^a   Marcoux, Marianne ^a   Lusseau, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction; Displacement; Dredging; Harbour; Scotland; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN (TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS); BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; DISPLACEMENT; DREDGING OPERATIONS; HARBOUR; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; SCOTLAND; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

ANIMALS; CONSTRUCTION; DREDGING;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

COASTAL ZONE; DOLPHIN; DREDGING; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HARBOR; INVERTEBRATE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBANIZATION;

ABERDEEN [SCOTLAND]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

INVERTEBRATA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84884134484     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.06.020     Document Type: Article

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