Cetacean presence and distribution and relationship with environmental and anthropogenic parameters in central western Mediterranean Sea, using data from network of fixed sampling transects using ferry as platform of research

• Main Author: Arcangeli, Antonella
• Other Authors: Bologna, Marco Alberrto
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Università degli studi Roma Tre 2016
• Subjects: Cetacean; Mediterranean Sea; Settori Disciplinari MIUR::Scienze biologiche::ZOOLOGIA; Categorie ISI-CRUI::Scienze biologiche::Animal Sciences; Scienze biologiche; Isi; Balaenoptera physalus; Physeter macrocephalus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2307/5884

During the summers of 2010 and 2011, weekly cetacean surveys were undertaken in “passing mode”, using ferries as platforms of opportunity, along the “fixed line transect” between Catania and Civitavecchia (southern Italy). Of the 20 species of cetaceans confirmed for the Mediterranean Sea, eight wer...