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Dear Marmamers,
The Following article is available as a
PDF:
Dave Wall, Joanne O'Brien,
John Meade, & Brendan M. Allen. Summer distribution and relative
abundance of cetaceans off the west coast of
Abstract From May to September 2004 a
survey of cetacean distribution and relative abundance was conducted on board a
ship of opportunitya vessel used as a survey platform but not chartered for
this purposeoff the west coast of Ireland. In total, 508 hours of survey effort
were completed, with 304.2 hours in Beaufort sea-state 3 or less. Two hundred
and thirty one sightings of eight speciescommon dolphin Delphinus delphis (L.),
Atlantic white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus (Gray), bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu), harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena (L.), Rissos
dolphin Grampus griseus (Cuvier), pilot whale Globicephala melas (Traill), minke
whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Lacepede) and fin whale Balaenoptera physalus
(L.)were recorded, totalling 2,933 individuals. The greatest diversity and
relative abundance were recorded on the Rockall Bank, where Atlantic white-sided
dolphin was the most abundant species. The common dolphin was the most abundant
species recorded on the continental shelf to the south-west of
A pdf copy is available from the Royal Irish Academy's website (open access): http://www.ria.ie/cgi-bin/ria/papers/100578.pdf |
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