Rate of increase and current abundance of humpback whales in West Greenland

Journal of Cetacean Research and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Heide JORGENSEN M P ^a   Laidre, K L ^a,b   Hansen, R G ^a   Burt, M L ^c   Simon, M ^a   Borchers, D L ^c   Hansen, J ^d   Harding, K ^d   Rasmussen, M ^e   Dietz, R ^f   Teilmann, J ^f  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abundance estimate; Distance sampling; Humpback whale; Mark Recapture; Satellite tagging; Survey Aerial; West greenland

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; BIOTELEMETRY; CORRECTION; FEEDING GROUND; GROWTH RATE; LINE TRANSECT; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PERCEPTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAGGING; WHALE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

CETACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE;

EID: 84865527076     PISSN: 15610713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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