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The method traditionally used to estimate pack-ice seal abundance employs sighting surveys from ships or aircraft to … estimate the number of seals hauled out on the ice, combined with studies of haul-out behaviour to estimate the proportion … of time spent on the ice.
Knowledge of penguin abundance at regional and circumpolar scales across the Southern Ocean is important … for the development of ecosystem models and to estimate prey consumption by penguins to assess potential competition … with fisheries’ operations.
The Ross seal (Ommatophoca rossii) is the least studied of the Antarctic ice-breeding phocids. In … particular, estimating the population status of the Ross seal has proved extremely difficult.
1. The crabeater seal … Lobodon carcinophaga … is considered to be a key species in the krill-based foodweb … of the Southern Ocean. Reliable estimates of the abundance of this species are necessary to … allow the development of multispecies, predator…
We use line transect detection functions together with generalized linear and additive … models to estimate detection probability when detection on the line ("g(O)") may … not be certain.
One of the aims of the Antarctic Pack-Ice Seals (APIS) program was to determine the … distribution and habitat use of seals inhabiting the pack-ice surrounding Antarctica. The … Australian contribution to APIS focussed on the sector of pack-ice off east Antarctica between … 60-150oE.
Mark-recapture models applied to double-observer distance sampling data neglect the information … on relative detectability of objects contained in the distribution of observed distances.
The Antarctic Pack-Ice Seals program (APIS) is an initiative of the SCAR Expert Group on Seals aimed at quantifying the role of pack-ice seals (crabeater, leopard and Ross) in the Southern Ocean. A central feature of APIS was a synoptic…