Probability of detecting harbor porpoise from aerial surveys: Estimating g(0)

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-75

  Laake, Jeffrey L ^a   Calambokidis, John ^b   Osmek, Steven D ^a   Rugh, David J ^a  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b Cascadia Research   (United States)

Author keywords

aerial surveys; dive behavior; g(0) estimation; harbor porpoise; line transect sampling; Phocoena phocoena; visibility bias

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; AERIAL SURVEYS; HARBOUR PORPOISE; MAMMALS; SAMPLING; VISIBILITY BIAS;

PHOCOENA PHOCOENA;

EID: 0030621106     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802415     Document Type: Article

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