The world's smallest whale population?

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-85

  Wade, Paul R ^a   Kennedy, Amy ^a   LeDuc, Rick ^b   Barlow, Jay ^b   Carretta, Jim ^b   Shelden, Kim ^a   Perryman, Wayne ^b   Pitman, Robert ^b   Robertson, Kelly ^b   Rone, Brenda ^a   Salinas, Juan Carlos ^b   Zerbini, Alexandre ^a   Brownell Jr , Robert L ^b   Clapham, Phillip J ^a  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bering Sea; Eubalaena japonica; Mark recapture; North Pacific; Right whale

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; GENOTYPE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHOTOGRAPH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WHALE; WHALING;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA JAPONICA;

EID: 79251521428     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0477     Document Type: Article

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