Estimates of abundance and change in abundance of the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) along the south coast of South Africa
O. A. Vargas Fonseca, S. P. Kirkman, W. C. Oosthuizen, T. Bouveroux, V. Cockcroft, D. Conry, P. Pistorius
The paper estimates a 72.3% decline in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin abundance in Plettenberg Bay between 2002-2003 and 2014-2016 using mark-recapture modeling.
bioRxiv · Dec 13, 2019Zoology