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Global Coverage of Cetacean Line-Transect Surveys: Status Quo, Data Gaps and Future Challenges

Knowledge of abundance, trends and distribution of cetacean populations is needed to inform marine conservation efforts, ecosystem models and spatial planning. We compiled a geo-spatial database of published data on cetacean abundance from dedicated visual line-transect surveys and encoded >1100...

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Autores principales: Kaschner, Kristin, Quick, Nicola J., Jewell, Rebecca, Williams, Rob, Harris, Catriona M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22984461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044075