Re-Examining Mortality Sources and Population Trends in a Declining Seabird: Using Bayesian Methods to Incorporate Existing Information and New Data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Reid, Tim ^a,b,c   Hindell, Mark ^a   Lavers, Jennifer L ^a,b   Wilcox, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; BREEDING SUCCESS; DATA PROCESSING; FISHERY; HABITAT; INFORMATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RECOVERY; PROBABILITY; PUFFINUS CARNEIPES; SEABIRD; SHEARWATER; SURVIVAL; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIRDS; BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERIES; HUMANS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

PROCELLARIIDAE; PUFFINUS CARNEIPES; SCOMBRIDAE; XIPHIIDAE;

EID: 84875720337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058230     Document Type: Article

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