Abundance of irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) and Ganges River dolphins (Platanista gangetica gangetica) estimated using concurrent counts made by independent teams in waterways of the sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 527-547

  Smith, Brian D ^a,e   Braulik, Gill ^b   Strindberg, Samantha ^a   Ahmed, Benazir ^c   Mansur, Rubaiyat ^d  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b Downstream Research Group   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

^d Darpan Complex   (Bangladesh)

^e Asian Freshwater and Coastal Cetacean Program   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Chapman's modified Lincoln Petersen mark recapture estimator; Correction factors; Ganges River dolphins; Huggins conditional likelihood model; Irrawaddy dolphins; Orcaella brevirostris; Platanista gangetica

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; DOLPHIN; GROUP SIZE; MANGROVE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; AYEYARWADY; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; GANGES DELTA; GANGES RIVER; MYANMAR; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDARBANS;

ORCAELLA BREVIROSTRIS; PLATANISTA GANGETICA; PLATANISTA GANGETICA GANGETICA;

EID: 33745012073     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2006.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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