Sensitivity analysis identifies high influence sites for estimates of penguin krill consumption on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Science

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-23

  Lynch, Heather J ^a   Ratcliffe, Norman ^b   Passmore, Jennifer ^b   Foster, Emma ^b   Trathan, Philip N ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ad lie penguin; CCAMLR; chinstrap penguin; krill management; penguin population estimates; Zavodovski Island

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84873882880     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102012000600     Document Type: Article

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