Estimating seasonal abundance of a central place forager using counts and telemetry data

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 378, Issue , 2009, Pages 289-298

  Sharpies, Ruth J ^a,b   Mackenzie, Monique L ^a   Hammond, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Central place forager; Harbour seal; Haul out behaviour; Mixed effects models; Phoca vitulina; Population size

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOCORRELATION; BIOTELEMETRY; CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATION; PINNIPED; POPULATION SIZE; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 63649128883     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07827     Document Type: Article

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