Multiple hypothesis testing and the declining-population paradigm in steller sea lions

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1932-1955

  Wolf, Nicholas ^a,b   Mangel, Marc ^a,b,c  

^a MRAG Americas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial survey; Beta binomial observation error; Declining population paradigm; Eumetopias jubatus; Killer whales; Multiple hypothesis testing; Optimal foraging; Steller sea lions; Stochastic dynamic programming; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; ORCINUS ORCA; PHOCA; POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALASKA; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA LIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63249117407     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1254.1     Document Type: Article

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