Demographic analysis of sperm whales using matrix population models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 248, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-79

  Chiquet, Ross A ^a   Ma, Baoling ^b   Ackleh, Azmy S ^a   Pal, Nabendu ^a   Sidorovskaia, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic growth rate; Extinction probability; Matrix models; Sensitivity and elasticity analysis; Sperm whale

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC GROWTH; ELASTICITY ANALYSIS; EXTINCTION PROBABILITY; MATRIX MODEL; SPERM WHALES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

GROWTH RATE;

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ELASTICITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; GROWTH RATE; LIFE CYCLE; MATRIX; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPERM; SURVIVORSHIP; WHALE;

PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 84868549282     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.09.023     Document Type: Article

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