Evaluating breeding habitat and populations of ringed seals Phoca hispida in Svalbard fjords

Abstract In Tempelfjorden and Sassenfjorden, Svalbard, 12 March to4 April 1990, a Siberian husky dog was used to detect ringed seal breathing holes in the ice, using random stratified sampling to sample 20% (40 km 2 ) of the total area. The area was estimated to contain 997 ringed seal breathing hol...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Authors: Lydersen, Christian, Ryg, Morten
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400012614
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400012614