Population trends of female Elephant Seals breeding on the Courbet Peninsula, îles Kerguelen

Polar Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 319-328

  Authier, Matthieu ^a   Delord, Karine ^a   Guinet, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Long term monitoring; Mirounga leonina; Population trend; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL CHANGE; PHENOLOGY; PINNIPED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATOR; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COURBET PENINSULA; FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; KERGUELEN; KERGUELEN ISLANDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 79951774247     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0881-1     Document Type: Article

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