Estimation of demographic parameters for NZ sea lions breeding on the Auckland Islands, 1997/98–2009/10
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.

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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.