Predicting the distribution of crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophaga off east Antarctica during the breeding season

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 299, Issue , 2005, Pages 297-309

  Southwell, C J ^a   Kerry, K R ^a   Ensor, P H ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Breeding; Crabeater seal; Distribution; Generalised linear modelling

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; BREEDING SEASON; PINNIPED; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS;

EID: 26244467756     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps299297     Document Type: Article

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