Harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) abundance within the Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary, Scotland:recent trends and extrapolation to extinction

Aerial surveys have detected alarming declines in counts of harbour seals in several regions across Scotland. Demographic data and simple models were used to examine the recent decline in the numbers of harbour seals counted in one population within a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) on the east c...

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Published in:Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Main Authors: Hanson, Nora, Thompson, Dave, Duck, Callan, Baxter, John, Lonergan, Mike
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
coastal
conservation evaluation
littoral
mammals
monitoring
Special Area of Conservation
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name=Aquatic Science
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name=Ecology
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name=Nature and Landscape Conservation
Firth of Tay
Tay
harbour seal
Phoca vitulina
Online Access:https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/76920c59-b5d2-4344-b3f3-8ec3fa377634
https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2609
https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/files/49686360/Author_Accepted_Manuscript.pdf
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84949682025&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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