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Use of Photo-Identification and Mark-Recapture Methodology to Assess Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) Populations

Following centuries of exploitation, basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) are considered by IUCN as Endangered in the Northeast Atlantic, where they have now been substantially protected for over two decades. However, the present size of this population remains unknown. We investigated the use of pho...

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Autores principales: Gore, Mauvis A., Frey, Peter H., Ormond, Rupert F., Allan, Holly, Gilkes, Gabriella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26930611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150160