A new method for estimating animal abundance with two sources of data in capture-recapture studies

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 390-400

  Madon, Bénédicte ^a   Gimenez, Olivier ^b   Mcardle, Brian ^c   Scott Baker, C ^d   Garrigue, Claire ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Opération cétacés ^*  (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Abundance; Humpback whales; Joint modelling; Jolly Seber model; Open population; Two source Jolly Seber model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861040715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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