A bayesian uncertainty analysis of cetacean demography and bycatch mortality using age-at-death data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1914-1931

  Moore, Jeffrey E ^a   Read, Andrew J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bay of Fundy; Bayesian analysis; Bycatch; Canada; Cetacean demography; Data and process; Gulf of Maine; Harbor porpoise; Incidental take; Odontocete; Phocoena phocoena; Strandings; Uncertainty; USA

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; ODONTOCETI; PHOCOENA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION; FERTILITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORPOISE; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FERTILITY; FISHERIES; MAINE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOCOENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 63249092471     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0862.1     Document Type: Article

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