Using social structure to improve mortality estimates: An example with sperm whales

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-36

  Whitehead, Hal ^a   Gero, Shane ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Likelihood; Management; Mark recapture; Physeter macrocephalus; Population parameters; Social organization; Status; Stock assessment; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892458057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12124     Document Type: Article

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