Balancing bias and precision in capture-recapture estimates of abundance

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 253-275

  Friday, Nancy A ^a,d   Smith, Tim D ^b,e   Stevick, Peter T ^c,f   Allen, Judy ^c   Fernald, Tom ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Policy and Design   (United States)

^d ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust ^*  (United States)

^f HEBRIDEAN WHALE AND DOLPHIN TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Capture recapture; Humpback whale; Individual animal distinctiveness; Individual identification; Mark recapture; Megaptera novaeangliae; North Atlantic; Photographic identification; Photographic quality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 42449148692     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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