Decline in Relative Abundance of Bottlenose Dolphins Exposed to Long‐Term Disturbance

By L. Bejder, A. Samuels, Hal Whitehead, N. Gales, Janet Mann, Richard C. Connor, Michael R. Heithaus, J. Watson-Capps, C. Flaherty, Michael Krützen. Conservation Biology, 2006

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology

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