Activities, motivations and disturbance: An agent-based model of bottlenose dolphin behavioral dynamics and interactions with tourism in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 282, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-58

  Pirotta, Enrico ^a   New, Leslie ^b   Harwood, John ^c   Lusseau, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Marine Mammal Commission   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Animal behavior; Bayesian; Human disturbance; Multi state model; Wildlife tourism

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BOATS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MOTIVATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BAYESIAN; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; MULTI-STATE MODEL; WILDLIFE TOURISM;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BOATING; DOLPHIN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDATION RISK; SHARK; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

DOUBTFUL SOUND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 84897424427     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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