Using air-deployed passive sonobuoys to detect and locate critically endangered North Pacific right whales

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rone, Brenda K ^a   Berchok, Catherine L ^a   Crance, Jessica L ^a   Clapham, Phillip J ^a  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC METHOD; AIRBORNE SENSING; BUOY SYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENOTYPE; HABITAT USE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SAMPLING; SUBPOPULATION; TRACKING; WHALE; WHALING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CETACEA; EUBALAENA JAPONICA;

EID: 84867233532     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2012.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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