Environmental predictors of bottlenose dolphins distribution and core feeding densities in Galveston Bay, Texas

Coastal dolphins are often exposed to habitat degradation and direct interactions with humans. Major factors that influence dolphin distribution, critical for conservation concerns, are still poorly understood even for the bottlenose dolphin, the best-studied cetacean. To establish the environmental...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moreno, Maria Paula Teixeira
Other Authors: Wursig, Bernd G.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Texas A&M University 2006
Subjects:
GAM
GLM
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3803