Estimating the Abundance of Marine Mammal Populations

Estimating the Abundance of Marine Mammal Populations

Motivated by the need to estimate the abundance of marine mammal populations to inform conservation assessments, especially relating to fishery bycatch, this paper provides background on abundance estimation and reviews the various methods available for pinnipeds, cetaceans and sirenians. We first g...

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Main Authors: Philip S. Hammond, Tessa B. Francis, Dennis Heinemann, Kristy J. Long, Jeffrey E. Moore, André E. Punt, Randall R. Reeves, Maritza Sepúlveda, Guðjón Már Sigurðsson, Margaret C. Siple, Gísli Víkingsson, Paul R. Wade, Rob Williams, Alexandre N. Zerbini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
abundance
cetaceans
pinnipeds
sirenians
population size
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.735770/full

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