Absolute abundance of southern bluefin tuna estimated by close-kin mark-recapture

oleh: Mark V. Bravington, Peter M. Grewe, Campbell R. Davies

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-11-01

Deskripsi

Accurate determination of population size for highly-mobile marine animals is often prohibitively difficult. Here, Bravingtonet al.estimate the abundance of southern bluefin tuna using a method based on the number of parent-offspring pairs detected genetically in samples from the catch.