Estimates of humpback whale abundance off Kauai, 1989 to 1993: Evaluating biases associated with sampling the Hawaiian Islands breeding assemblage

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 175, Issue , 1998, Pages 23-34

  Cerchio, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Humpback whale; Mark recapture; Photographic identification

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; SAMPLING BIAS; WHALE;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; HAWAIIA; MARTES PENNANTI; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA;

EID: 0032542286     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps175023     Document Type: Article

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