Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, population size estimated from acoustic and visual census data collected near
Commission). We are very grateful to Andrew A. Scha ner for excellent research assistance. We thank Dr. Thomas F. Albert, Craig George and other scientists and personnel from the Borough's Department of Wildlife Management, the many other researchers with whom we have worked, most of whose name...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.142.6409 2023-05-15T15:35:57+02:00 Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, population size estimated from acoustic and visual census data collected near Adrian E. Raftery Judith E. Zeh The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1994 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.142.6409 http://www.stat.washington.edu/research/reports/1996/tr303.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.142.6409 http://www.stat.washington.edu/research/reports/1996/tr303.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.stat.washington.edu/research/reports/1996/tr303.pdf text 1994 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T15:00:32Z Commission). We are very grateful to Andrew A. Scha ner for excellent research assistance. We thank Dr. Thomas F. Albert, Craig George and other scientists and personnel from the Borough's Department of Wildlife Management, the many other researchers with whom we have worked, most of whose names appear on papers in our reference list, the census crew, and the Eskimo hunters of the Borough, for their contributions to our understanding of bowhead whales and the census. We are also grateful to Geof Givens for useful discussions, and to Doug Butterworth and Andre Punt Estimating the population size and rate of increase of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, is important because bowheads were the rst species of great whale for which commercial whaling stopped and so their status indicates the recovery prospects of other great whales, and also because this information is used by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to set the aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for Alaskan Eskimos. We describe the 1993 visual and acoustic census o Point Barrow, Alaska, which provides the best data available for estimating these quantities. We outline the de nitive version of two statistical methods for estimating the population, the generalized removal method and the Bayes empirical Bayes Text Balaena mysticetus Barrow bowhead whale eskimo* Point Barrow Alaska Unknown Butterworth ENVELOPE(66.733,66.733,-70.700,-70.700) Ner ENVELOPE(6.622,6.622,62.612,62.612) |
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Commission). We are very grateful to Andrew A. Scha ner for excellent research assistance. We thank Dr. Thomas F. Albert, Craig George and other scientists and personnel from the Borough's Department of Wildlife Management, the many other researchers with whom we have worked, most of whose names appear on papers in our reference list, the census crew, and the Eskimo hunters of the Borough, for their contributions to our understanding of bowhead whales and the census. We are also grateful to Geof Givens for useful discussions, and to Doug Butterworth and Andre Punt Estimating the population size and rate of increase of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, is important because bowheads were the rst species of great whale for which commercial whaling stopped and so their status indicates the recovery prospects of other great whales, and also because this information is used by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to set the aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for Alaskan Eskimos. We describe the 1993 visual and acoustic census o Point Barrow, Alaska, which provides the best data available for estimating these quantities. We outline the de nitive version of two statistical methods for estimating the population, the generalized removal method and the Bayes empirical Bayes |
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