Long-term impacts of fish provisioning on the behavior and survival of wild bottlenose dolphins
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0006-3207/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.01.001 Abbreviations: DEC, West Australian Department of Environment and Conservation; BACI, Before-After-Control-Impact. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Georgetown University, Department of Biology, 3700 O St. NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA. Tel.: +1 202 687 1307; fax: +1 202 687 E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Mann). Vivienne Foroughirad , Janet Mann a,b,⇑
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