ARCTIC VOL. 50, NO. 3 (SEPTEMBER 1997) P. 234 – 240 Re-Estimating the Size of the Polar Bear Population in Western Hudson Bay
ABSTRACT. A mark-recapture study of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) ashore during the ice-free period of Hudson Bay was undertaken in 1994 and 1995 to re-estimate the size of the western Hudson Bay population. Previous estimates were based on animals caught between the Churchill and Nelson Rivers; con...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.578.681 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-3-234.pdf |
Summary: | ABSTRACT. A mark-recapture study of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) ashore during the ice-free period of Hudson Bay was undertaken in 1994 and 1995 to re-estimate the size of the western Hudson Bay population. Previous estimates were based on animals caught between the Churchill and Nelson Rivers; consequently, bears in the southern part of the geographic range of this population were not sampled. We used Jolly-Seber models to re-estimate population size from two data sets: bears handled |
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