Estimating survival and abundance in a bottlenose dolphin population taking into account transience and temporary emigration

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 392, Issue , 2009, Pages 263-276

  Silva, Mónica A ^a,b,c   Magalhães, Sara ^b   Prieto, Rui ^b   Santos, Ricardo Serrão ^b   Hammond, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bottlenose dolphins; Capture recapture data; Open models; Pollock's robust design; Survival; Temporary emigration; Transience

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DOLPHIN; EMIGRATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; POLLACHIUS; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 70350348691     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08233     Document Type: Article

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