Home ranges of Guiana dolphins (Sotalia guianensis) (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in the Cananéia estuary, Brazil

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1641-1647

  de Faria Oshima, Júlia Emi ^a   de Oliveira Santos, Marcos César ^a   Bazzalo, Mariel ^b   de Carvalho Flores, Paulo André ^c   do Nascimento Pupim, Fabiano ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Centro Nacional de Pesquisa   (Brazil)

Author keywords

habitat use; home range; kernel density estimator; Sotalia guianensis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011436931     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315410001311     Document Type: Article

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