If you go down to the woods today: spatially explicit models of black bears in Alaska.

Mary Woodcock Kroble
Monday 10 June 2013
Date: 18 December 2013
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Speaker: Dave Miller (CREEM)

Abstract

Work within the state of Alaska’s Department of Fish & Game has allowed for the estimation of black and brown bear abundances, but only on a relatively coarse spatial scale (bears per thousands of square kilometres). We developed a spatially explicit model of bear abundance using a density surface model approach. Using double observer aerial line transect data collected over 2001-2003, we build maps of abundance (and uncertainty) and relate estimates back to biologically meaningful covariates.

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