Incorporating movement into models of grey seal population dynamics

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 634-645

  Harrison, Philip J ^a,b   Buckland, Stephen T ^a   Thomas, Len ^a   Harris, Rob ^a   Pomeroy, Paddy P ^a   Harwood, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Metapopulations; Multisite capture recapture; Photo identification; Sequential importance sampling; State space models

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH SEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEALS, EARLESS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS;

EID: 33646542665     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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