Using a multi-disciplinary approach to identify a critically endangered killer whale management unit

• Published in: Ecological Indicators
• Main Authors: Esteban, Ruth, Verborgh, Philippe, Gauffier, Pauline, Giménez, Joan, Martín, Vidal, Pérez-Gil, Mónica, Tejedor, Marisa, Almunia, Javier, Jepson, Paul D., García-Tiscar, Susana, Barrett-Lennard, Lance G., Guinet, Christophe, Foote, Andrew D., de Stephanis, Renaud
• Other Authors: SEO/BirdLife, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Loro Parque Fundación, CEPSA, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (España), Fundación Biodiversidad, University of British Columbia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: Stable isotopes; Social structure; Genetics; Pollutants; Conservation; Sog; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/196442; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.01.043; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329

A key goal for wildlife managers is identifying discrete, demographically independent conservation units. Previous genetic work assigned killer whales that occur seasonally in the Strait of Gibraltar (SoG) and killer whales sampled off the Canary Islands (CI) to the same population. Here we present...