Accounting for transients when estimating abundance of bottlenose dolphins in Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 569-579

  Conn, Paul B ^a,b   Gorgone, Antoinette M ^a   Jugovich, Amelia R ^a,c   Byrd, Barbie L ^a   Hansen, Larry J ^a,d  

^a SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

abundance; bottlenose dolphin; mark recapture; photo identification; residents; superpopulation; transients; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DECISION MAKING; DOLPHIN; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; OPEN SPACE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 79955890928     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.94     Document Type: Article

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