Development of individual recognition of female southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from Punta Norte Península Valdés, applying principal components analysis

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1257-1266

  Caiafa, Cesar F ^a   Proto, Araceli N ^a,b,d   Vergani, Daniel ^c   Stanganelli, Zulma ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Eigenfaces; Karhunen Lo ve Transform; Mirounga leonina; Patagonia; Pattern identification; Pen nsula Vald s; Principal components analysis; Southern elephant seals

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; PINNIPED; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; SOUTH AMERICA; VALDES PENINSULA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 21244464754     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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