Photographic mark-recapture analysis of local dynamics within an open population of dolphins

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1689-1700

  Fearnbach, H ^a,c   Durban, J ^b,c,d   Parsons, K ^a,c,e   Claridge, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c BAHAMAS MARINE MAMMAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (Bahamas)

^d CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH   (United States)

^e NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Bottlenose dolphin; Capture recapture; Clusters; Jolly Seber; Little Bahama bank; Mixture models; Northern Bahamas; Population dynamics; Transients; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DOLPHIN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENT POPULATION; SPACE USE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; LITTLE BAHAMA BANK;

CETACEA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 84864123937     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0021.1     Document Type: Article

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