Age, Growth, and Population Dynamics of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Along Coastal Texas

Age, Growth, and Population Dynamics of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Along Coastal Texas

Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are apex predators and indicators of localized ecosystem health. Accurate characterization of population demography is crucial to parameter predictions. However, descriptions of age growth investigations of odontocetes are limited to the postnatal life...

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Main Author: Neuenhoff, Rachel Dawn
Other Authors: Marshall, Christopher D.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
Subjects:
bottlenose dolphin
fetal cetacean
fetal allometry
life table
population growth rate
bottlenose dolphin survivorship
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-3228

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