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Mass strandings ofcetaceans
| Title: | Mass strandings ofcetaceans. |
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| Name(s): |
Walsh, M. T. Ewing, Ruth Y. Odell, Daniel K. Bossart, Gregory D. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Date Issued: | 2001 | |
| Publisher: | CRC Press | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, FL | |
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| Extent: | 16 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | FA00007423 (IID) | |
| Note(s): |
A mass stranding of cetaceans is an event in which two or more individuals of the same
species, excluding a single cow-calf pair, beach within a given spatial and temporal reference
(Wilkinson, 1991). A mass stranding event may span 1 or more days and range over miles of
shoreline, bridging multiple counties, or sandbars and outlying keys. A variety of species have
been affected; Odell (1987) listed 19 odontocete species known to mass-strand. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 1442 This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Walsh, M. T., Ewing, R. Y., Odell, D. K., & Bossart, G. D. (2001). Mass strandings of cetaceans. In L. A. Dierauf, & F. M. D. Gulland (Eds.), CRC handbook of marine mammal medicine (pp.83-96). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. |
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| Subject(s): |
Cetaceans Marine mammals--Stranding--Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007423 | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
