The World's Northernmost Harbour Seal Population-How Many Are There?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Merkel, Benjamin ^a,b   Lydersen, Christian ^a   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^b   Kovacs, Kit M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMAGE QUALITY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SEAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORWAY; PHOCA; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA VITULINA;

EID: 84879742006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067576     Document Type: Article

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