Estimating abundance from one-dimensional passive acoustic surveys

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1000-1009

  Whitehead, Hal ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Acoustics; Density; Distance sampling; One dimensional; Survey; Transect

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POPULATION DENSITY; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA;

EID: 77749337575     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2008-303     Document Type: Article

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