Effects of noise and by-catch on a Danish harbour porpoise population

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 272, Issue , 2014, Pages 242-251

  Nabe Nielsen, Jacob ^a   Sibly, Richard M ^b   Tougaard, Jakob ^a   Teilmann, Jonas ^a   Sveegaard, Signe ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbances; Cetacean; Individual based population model; Marine mammal; Phocoena phocoena; Spatially explicit agent based model; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CETACEAN; MARINE MAMMALS; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; POPULATION MODEL;

ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SHIPS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

MAMMALS;

AGE STRUCTURE; BYCATCH; DATABASE; EXTINCTION; FOOD; GILLNET; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MORTALITY; NOISE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PORPOISE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84887221338     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.09.025     Document Type: Article

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