Estimation of demographic parameters for NZ sea lions breeding on the Auckland Islands, 1997/98–2009/10
Introduction
Read an update on the estimation of demographic parameters for New Zealand sea lions breeding on the Auckland Islands from data collected up to the 2009/10 field season. Published 2011.Download the publication
Summary
In addition to updating the estimation of demographic parameters for New Zealand sea lions breeding on the Auckland Islands using data collected up to the 2009/10 field season, this report also describes models that allow the number of resights per season to follow a zero-inflated binomial distribution. Models using logit-linear relationships with age for the demographic parameters were also fitted to the data.