Organismal and 'gametic' capture-recapture using microsatellite genotyping confirm low abundance and reproductive autonomy of humpback whales on the wintering grounds of New Caledonia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 274, Issue , 2004, Pages 251-262

  Garrigue, Claire ^a,b   Dodemont, Rémi ^a   Steel, Debbie ^b   Baker, C Scott ^b  

^a Operation Cetaces   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abundance; Humpback whales; Megaptera novaeangliae; Microsatellite genotyping; Paternity; Photo identification; Population recovery; Reproductive autonomy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; AUTONOMY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; WHALE;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; TRANSPOSONS; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3142669366     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps274251     Document Type: Article

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