Transit station or destination? Attendance patterns, movements and abundance estimate of humpback whales off west South Africa from photographic and genotypic matching

African Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 353-373

  Barendse, J ^a   Best, P B ^a   Thornton, M ^a   Elwen, S H ^a   Rosenbaum, H C ^b,c   Carvalho, I ^b,c,e   Pomilla, C ^c   Collins, T J Q ^b,d   Meyer M A ^f   Leeney, R H ^g  

^a IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d Environment Society of Oman   (Oman)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^f Oceans and Coasts   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abundance; Breeding Stock B; capture heterogeneity; capture recapture; Chapman's modified Petersen estimate; Megaptera novaeangliae; migration; photo identification; Program MARK; site fidelity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BREEDING SITE; DATABASE; DETECTION METHOD; FEEDING; FEEDING GROUND; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HETEROGENEITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MIGRATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PERIODICITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION MODELING; PRECISION; SEASONALITY; SITE FIDELITY; SURVIVAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WHALE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 84856118612     PISSN: 1814232X     EISSN: 18142338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2011.637343     Document Type: Article

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