seal {spmodel}

Estimated harbor-seal trends from abundance data in southeast Alaska, USA

Description

Estimated harbor-seal trends from abundance data in southeast Alaska, USA.

Usage

seal

Format

A sf object with 62 rows and 2 columns:

• log_trend: The log of the estimated harbor-seal trends from abundance data.

• geometry: POLYGON geometry representing polygons in an Alaska Albers projection (EPSG: 3338).

Source

These data were collected by the Polar Ecosystem Program of the Marine Mammal Laboratory of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center of NOAA Fisheries. The data were used in the publication listed in References.

References

Ver Hoef, J.M., Peterson, E. E., Hooten, M. B., Hanks, E. M., and Fortin, M.-J. 2018. Spatial Autoregressive Models for Statistical Inference from Ecological Data. Ecological Monographs, 88: 36-59. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1283.