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

• Main Authors: Esteban, R, Verborgh, P, Gauffier, P, Giménez, J, Martín, V, Pérez-Gil, M, Tejedor, M, Almunia, J, Jepson, PD, García-Tíscar, S, Barrett-Lennard, LG, Guinet, C, Foote, AD, de Stephanis, R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Social structure; Genetics; Stable isotopes; Pollutants; Conservation; Sog; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502338/1/Esteban%20et%20al%202016_killer%20whales%20management%20units_accepted_Ecological%20Indicators.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502338/

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...