Fitting Models of the Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance to Data from Marine Mammal Populations

Our scientific objectives are to build a statistical framework for understanding the at-sea health of (initially) three species of marine mammals: southern and northern elephant seals, and northern right whales. For elephant seals our goal is to build a hierarchical Bayesian model that provides dail...

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Main Authors: Clark, James S., Schick, Robert S.
Other Authors: DUKE UNIV DURHAM NC NICHOLAS SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND EARTH SCIENCES
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Biology
Anatomy and Physiology
Biological Oceanography
*AQUATIC ANIMALS
*LIPIDS
BUOYANCY
HEALTH SURVEYS
TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
PHYSIOLOGY
MARINE MAMMALS
DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS
AT SEA HEALTH
ELEPHANT SEALS
RIGHT WHALES
FORAGING
HEALTH DATA
Elephant Seals
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA541722
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA541722
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Summary:Our scientific objectives are to build a statistical framework for understanding the at-sea health of (initially) three species of marine mammals: southern and northern elephant seals, and northern right whales. For elephant seals our goal is to build a hierarchical Bayesian model that provides daily estimates of lipid status, as lipid status of the mother is directly linked to pup survival. This model will use the drift dive behavior of elephant seals (Crocker et al. 1997) as the link to the underlying true, yet unmeasurable, lipid state. We are just starting to analyze the right whale data, but our initial scientific objective is to build a demographic model that provides spatially and temporally explicit estimates of individual survival and calving. Marine Mammals & Biological Oceanography Annual Reports: FY10, ONR Code 322. The original document contains color images.

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