Laser photogrammetry improves size and demographic estimates for whale sharks
Whale sharks Rhincodon typus are globally threatened, but a lack of biological and demographic information hampers an accurate assessment of their vulnerability to further decline or capacity to recover. We used laser photogrammetry at two aggregation sites to obtain more accurate size estimates of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2015-04-01
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| Series: | PeerJ |
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/886.pdf |