Recent changes in distribution and relative abundance of cetaceans in the Norwegian Sea and their relationship with potential prey

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Nøttestad, Leif ^a   Krafft, Bjørn A ^a   Anthonypillai, Valantine ^a   Bernasconi, Matteo ^a   Langård, Lise ^a,b   Mørk, Herdis L ^a   Fernö, Anders ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dolphins; Feeding; Pelagic fish; Shift; Spatial distribution; Whales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977830911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00083     Document Type: Article

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