A noninvasive demographic assessment of sea lions based on stage-specific abundances

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1287-1296

  Wielgus, Jeffrey ^a,c   Gonzalez Suarez, Manuela ^a   Aurioles Gamboa, David ^b   Gerber, Leah R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; California sea lion; Demography; El Nino; Gulf of California; Inverse estimation; Marine mammals; Noninvasive techniques; Population viability analysis; Quadratic programming; Zalophus californianus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BREEDING POPULATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; GROWTH RATE; PINNIPED; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GROWTH;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; ZALOPHUS; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY; SEA LIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55949116355     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0892.1     Document Type: Article

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