Introduction to the Special Volume on Tursiops in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

Authors

  • Pedro F. Fruet Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
  • Paula Laporta Yaqu Pacha Uruguay - Organización para la Conservación de Mamíferos Acuáticos en Américal del Sur
  • Juliana C. Di Tullio Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
  • Eduardo R. Secchi Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande
  • Eduardo Morteo Universidad Veracruzana
  • Gabriela Tezanos-Pinto Massey University
  • Luciana Möller Flinders University
  • Miriam Marmontel Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3747-9548
  • Daniel M. Palacios Oregon State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5597/00212

Keywords:

Strandings, Abundance Estimation, Habitat Use, Photo-Identification, Feeding Ecology, Fisheries Interactions

Abstract

LAJAM Special Volume on Tursiops in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean is introduced.

Author Biographies

Pedro F. Fruet, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

Museu Oceanográfico ‘Prof. Eliézer de C. Rios’

Juliana C. Di Tullio, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

Museu Oceanográfico ‘Prof. Eliézer de C. Rios’

Eduardo R. Secchi, Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande

Museu Oceanográfico ‘Prof. Eliézer de C. Rios’

Eduardo Morteo, Universidad Veracruzana

Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas

Gabriela Tezanos-Pinto, Massey University

Coastal-Marine Research Group, Institute of Mathematics and Natural
Science

Luciana Möller, Flinders University

Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution Lab, School of Biological Sciences

Miriam Marmontel, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá

Coordenação de Pesquisa

Daniel M. Palacios, Oregon State University

Marine Mammal Institute and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife

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Fruet, P. F., Laporta, P., Di Tullio, J. C., Secchi, E. R., Morteo, E., Tezanos-Pinto, G., Möller, L., Marmontel, M., & Palacios, D. M. (2017). Introduction to the Special Volume on Tursiops in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 11(1-2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.5597/00212

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