Relationship between per capita births of Cook Inlet belugas and summer salmon runs: age‐structured population modeling

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: Norman, Stephanie A., Hobbs, Roderick C., Beckett, Laurel A., Trumble, Stephen J., Smith, Woutrina A.
• Other Authors: Alaska Regional Office
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Pollard; Beluga; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2955; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fecs2.2955; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.2955; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ecs2.2955; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.2955

Abstract Anthropogenic disturbances may alter a population's conservation status if the ability of individuals to survive and breed is affected. We used an adaptation of the Heligman‐Pollard model to estimate survival at age of Cook Inlet belugas (CIB; Delphinapterus leucas ), an endangered pop...