First evidence that marine protected areas can work for marine mammals

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 474-480

  Gormley, Andrew M ^a,b   Slooten, Elisabeth ^a   Dawson, Steve ^a   Barker, Richard J ^a   Rayment, Will ^a   Du Fresne, Sam ^a,c   Bräger, Stefan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c Blue Planet Marine   (Australia)

^d The Whale Museum   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Capture recapture; Demographic; Dolphin; Gillnet; Marine protected area; Matrix model; Survival

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHING MORTALITY; GILLNET; MARINE MAMMAL; MARINE PARK; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; PRECISION; SURVIVAL;

BANKS PENINSULA; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

CEPHALORHYNCHUS HECTORI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84859142156     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02121.x     Document Type: Article

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