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dc.contributor.authorGenov, Tilen
dc.contributor.authorKotnjek, Polona
dc.contributor.authorCentrih, Tina
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-12T11:30:03Z
dc.date.available2020-08-12T11:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2021-04
dc.identifier.citationGenov , T , Kotnjek , P & Centrih , T 2021 , ' Occurence of common dolphins ( Delphinus delphis) in the Gulf of Trieste and the northern Adriatic Sea ' , Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems , vol. 31 , no. S1 , pp. 69-75 . https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3407en
dc.identifier.issn1052-7613
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 268202596
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1c78ee03-ab0c-4db0-a2dd-6f158031caff
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000558333700001
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85089288214
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20449
dc.description.abstract1. The Mediterranean common dolphin (Delphinus delphis), considered to have been very common in the past, had undergone a dramatic decline across most of the basin by the end of 1970s. In the northern Adriatic Sea, one of the regions with most available historical information, the common dolphin is thought to have been the most common and abundant cetacean throughout most of the 20th century. However, by the end of 1970s, it had virtually disappeared from the region and is now considered generally absent from the entire Adriatic Sea. 2. This contribution summarizes the occurrence of common dolphins in the Gulf of Trieste and provides a brief review of published records in other parts of the Adriatic Sea. 3. Systematic boat surveys in the wider area of the Gulf of Trieste between 2002 and 2019 confirmed that the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is the only regularly occurring cetacean species in this area. Despite this, several records of common dolphins were documented in the Gulf of Trieste between 2009 and 2012, through sightings of live animals or recovery of dead stranded animals. 4. Dorsal fin markings allowed the photo‐identification of some of these, suggesting that at least four different live individuals (three adults and one calf) occurred here in recent times. Most cases involved single adult individuals, but one included a mother‐calf pair that was temporarily resident in a port for several months, a behaviour atypical for this species. Photo‐identification showed that the presumed mother had previously been sighted in the Ionian Sea in Greece, over 1,000 km from the Gulf of Trieste, making this the longest documented movement for this species worldwide. 5. At present, the common dolphin continues to be rare in the region.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofAquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystemsen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 The Authors. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.en
dc.subjectAdriatic Seaen
dc.subjectCommon dolphinen
dc.subjectDelphinus delphisen
dc.subjectDistributionen
dc.subjectGulf of Triesteen
dc.subjectMediterranean Seaen
dc.subjectPhoto-identificationen
dc.subjectGC Oceanographyen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectNISen
dc.subject.lccGCen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleOccurence of common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) in the Gulf of Trieste and the northern Adriatic Seaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3407
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10990755/2021/31/S1en


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