Using Hierarchical Bayes to Understand Movement, Health, and Survival in the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Schick, Robert S ^a,b   Kraus, Scott D ^c   Rolland, Rosalind M ^c   Knowlton, Amy R ^c   Hamilton, Philip K ^c   Pettis, Heather M ^c   Kenney, Robert D ^d   Clark, James S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c John H Prescott Marine Laboratory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAYES THEOREM; BODY CONSTITUTION; ECTOPARASITOSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HEALTH STATUS; HIERARCHICAL BAYES; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN; SURVIVAL; WHALE; ANIMAL; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; BALAENIDAE; CYAMIDA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAYES THEOREM; CRUSTACEA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; WHALES;

EID: 84878800079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064166     Document Type: Article

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