Shipboard line transect surveys of crabeater seal abundance in the pack-ice off east Antarctica: Evaluation of assumptions

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 602-620

  Southwell, Colin ^a   De La Mare, Bill ^a,c   Borchers, David ^b   Burt, Louise ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crabeater seal; Density estimation; Evaluation; Independent observer; Line transect sampling; Lobodon carcinophaga; Shipboard survey

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; LINE TRANSECT; PACK ICE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT;

LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 3943082808     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2004.tb01182.x     Document Type: Review

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