Harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina) abundance within the Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary, Scotland: recent trends and extrapolation to extinction

• Published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
• Main Authors: Hanson, Nora, Thompson, Dave, Duck, Callan, Baxter, John, Lonergan, Mike
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Firth of Tay; Tay; harbour seal; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2609; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Faqc.2609; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/aqc.2609

Abstract Aerial surveys have detected alarming declines in counts of harbour seals in several regions across Scotland. Demographic data and simple models were used to examine the recent decline in the numbers of harbour seals counted in one population within a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) on t...