Shifting trends: detecting environmentally mediated regulation in long-lived marine vertebrates using time-series data

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: McMahon, C., Bester, M., Hindell, M., Brook, B., Bradshaw, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2009
• Subjects: Animals; Seals; Earless; Ecosystem; Population Dynamics; Time Factors; Australia; Female; Bradshaw; Corey; McMahon; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Marion Island; Southern Elephant Seal
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/50615; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-008-1205-9

© Springer-Verlag 2008 Assessing the status and trends in animal populations is essential for effective species conservation and management practices. However, unless time-series abundance data demonstrate rapid and reliable fluctuations, objective appraisal of directionality of trends is problemati...