Trophic role of small cetaceans and seals in Irish waters

• Main Author: Hernández-Milián, Gema
• Other Authors: Rogan, Emer, Reid, David
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University College Cork 2014
• Subjects: Striped dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; White-beaked dolphin; Bottlenose dolphin; Harbour porpoise; Harbour seal; Grey seal; Trisopterus spp; Fisheries; Irish waters; ECOPATH; Porpoise Harbour; harbour seal
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1979

Understanding the role of marine mammals in specific ecosystems and their interactions with fisheries involves, inter alia, an understanding of their diet and dietary requirements. In this thesis, the foraging ecology of seven marine mammal species that regularly occur in Irish waters was investigat...