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Uncommon or cryptic? Challenges in estimating leopard seal abundance by conventional but state-of-the-art methods Deep-Sea Research 1, 2008 (Ref: 13311)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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.

Detectability of penguins in aerial surveys over the pack-ice off Antarctica Wildlife Research, 2008 (Ref: 13475)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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.

Estimating population status under conditions of uncertainty: the Ross seal in East Antarctica Antarctic Science, 2008 (Ref: 13279)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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.

Taking account of dependent species in Management of the Southern Ocean krill fishery: estimating crabeater seal abundance off east Antarctica Journal of Applied Ecology, 2008 (Ref: 13310)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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…

Estimation of Detection Probability in Aerial Surveys of Antarctic Pack-Ice Seals. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, 2007 (Ref: 12852)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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.

Distribution and habitat partitioning by pack-ice seals off East Antarctica during early summer. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12469)
Category 3: Abstract

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.

Accommodating unmodeled heterogeneity in double-observer distance sampling surveys. Biometrics, 2006 (Ref: 12372)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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.

Abundance of pack-ice seals off east Antarctica. Conference Abstracts, IX SCAR International Biology Symposium, Curitiba, Brazil, 2005, 2005 (Ref: 12124)
Category 3: Verbal presentation

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…

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