Accounting for missing data when assessing availability in animal population surveys: An application to ice-associated seals in the Bering Sea

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1039-1046

  Conn, Paul B ^a   Johnson, Devin S ^a   London, Josh M ^a   Boveng, Peter L ^a  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Missing data; Missing at random; Population surveys; Satellite telemetry; Temporal autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 84870997140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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