Effects of a morbillivirus epizootic on long-finned pilot whales Globicephala melas in Spanish Mediterranean waters

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 502, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Wierucka, Kaja ^a   Verborgh, Philippe ^a   Meade, Rossa ^a   Colmant, Leyla ^a   Gauffier, Pauline ^a   Esteban, Ruth ^a   De Stephanis, Renaud ^b   Cañadas, Ana ^c  

^a CIRCE (Conservation   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c ALNILAM Research and Conservation   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cormack Jolly Seber; Long finned pilot whale; Medi terranean Sea; Morbillivirus; Photo identification; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SEVERITY; DOLPHIN; MORTALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VIRUS; WHALE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 84898990902     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10769     Document Type: Article

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