[PDF] Top 20 Distribution and abundance of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) on the south coast of Portugal

... In the last decades, human population growth brought several different threats to marine wildlife, and to assess the health of affected populations it is critical to obtain baseline knowledge ... See full document

... Bottlenose dolphin populations can display a variety of distribution patterns, forming discrete populations or a combination of residence patterns and widely movements along a ...type ... See full document

... in the Sado estuary and adjacent coastal waters, located on the Western coast of continental Portugal (approximate location 38º 29' N, 8º 55' W, Figure ...5). The ... See full document

... areas of distribution revealed two distinct morphotypes: the coastal morphotype and the offshore morphotype (Ross 1977, 1984; Walter 1981; Perrin, 1982; Leatherwood and Reeves, ... See full document

... over the years, which suggested some level of ...as the proximity to the resident protected population of the Sado estuary, we aimed to characterize the coastal ... See full document

... located on the Western conti- nental coast of Portugal (the approximate position of the river mouth is 38º 29' N, 8º 55' W; see map in dos Santos & Lacerda, ... See full document

... parasites, and interactions among conspecifics and with human ...For the present study, we used one year of photo-identification data for resident bottlenose dolphins of ... See full document

... One of the first steps in understanding the relationships between populations and their habitats is to determine which areas they use with higher ...systematic and non-systematic survey ... See full document

... one of the monophyletic lineages comprised in the class Anthozoa (Daly et ...fans and sea whips), soft corals, sea pens and the blue coral (Daly et ...As the name ... See full document

... in the former whaling ground off the northeast- ern coast of ...Brazil. The cruises took place in winter and spring of 1998-2001 with the objectives of ... See full document

... within the upwelling system off NW Portugal. The meroplanktonic paralarvae develop under very different environmental conditions, which are the key to define the recruitment success ... See full document

... in the former whaling ground off the northeast- ern coast of ...Brazil. The cruises took place in winter and spring of 1998-2001 with the objectives of ... See full document

... availability of prey, each species seek different kind of preys (mysids for longspine snipefish ...In Portugal, this species used to be commercially exploited by purse seiners as bycatch, as an ... See full document

... with the inverted micro- scopy technique: a) the misidenti fication or overlooking of small- sized classes; b) inadequate preservation of cells prior to analysis; c) the reliance ... See full document

... located on the southern coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil (25ºS, ...48ºW). The system is bordered by the municipality of Iguape to the north, by ... See full document

... acknowledgment of the marked decline of Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra Linnaeus, 1758) global population in the 70’s led to many studies that resulted in the classification of ... See full document

... that the factors shaping the European rabbits’ distribution and abundance showed to be variable between the different distribution ...areas. The four protected ... See full document

... zone of audibility is relatively extensive, as the lower frequencies should be detected by the animals at a distance of, at least, ...from the source. Nevertheless, that distance ... See full document

... in the lower length classes and females in the higher classes, with significant differences detected in the mean lengths-at- age of males and females, indicates that this is ... See full document

... rethinking the philosophy towards sustainability. Reversing the current fishery crisis will require a major overhaul of the contemporary fisheries management (Sutton ...interest and ... See full document