Use of the Robust Design to Estimate Seasonal Abundance and Demographic Parameters of a Coastal Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Holly C ^a,b   Pollock, Ken ^a,c   Waples, Kelly ^a,b   Bradley, Stuart ^a   Bejder, Lars ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Marine Science Program   (Australia)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTUMN; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROBABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SUMMER; SURVIVAL; WINTER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84885090411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076574     Document Type: Article

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