Predictive habitat modelling to estimate petrel breeding colony sizes: Sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) and mottled petrels (Pterodroma inexpectata) on Whenua Hou Island

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 291-306

  Scott, Darren ^a   Moller, Henrik ^a   Fletcher, David ^a   Newman, Jamie ^a   Aryal, Jagannath ^a   Bragg, Corey ^a   Charleton, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Digital Elevation Model; GIS; Pterodroma inexpectata; Puffinus griseus

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BREEDING POPULATION; COLONY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION STATUS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

CODFISH ISLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

PROCELLARIIDAE; PTERODROMA INEXPECTATA; PUFFINUS GRISEUS;

EID: 72349083122     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014220909510156     Document Type: Article

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