Incorporating individual variability into mark-recapture models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1047-1054

  Ford, Jessica H ^a,b   Bravington, Mark V ^a   Robbins, Jooke ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov model; Individual heterogeneity; Marine reserve; Mark recapture; Multi state; North Atlantic humpback whales

Indexed keywords

MEGAPTERA;

EID: 84870996561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00243.x     Document Type: Article

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