Polar bears in the Beaufort Sea: A 30-year mark-recapture case history

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 221-234

  Amstrup, S C ^a   McDonald, T L ^b   Stirling, I ^c  

^a Alaska Biological Science Center   (United States)

^b WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Covariates; Logistic modeling; Population estimation

Indexed keywords

URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 0001667182     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571101750524562     Document Type: Review

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