Heterogeneity and the mark-recapture assessment of the Scotian Shelf population of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus)

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2573-2585

  Whitehead, Hal ^a   Wimmer, Tonya ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SCOTIA SHELF;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; HYPEROODON AMPULLATUS;

EID: 31144461057     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f05-178     Document Type: Article

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