Estimating size and assessing trends in a coastal bottlenose dolphin population

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 288-300

  Wilson, Ben ^a,b   Hammond, Philip S ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bottlenose dolphin; Cetacean; Management; Mark recapture; Monitoring; Moray Firth, Scotland; North Sea; Photoidentification; Population trends; Power analysis; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CETACEAN; COASTAL WATERS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION SIZE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0033081138     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0288:ESAATI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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