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Measuring biological diversity
- A. Solow, S. Polasky
- Environmental ScienceEnvironmental and Ecological Statistics
- 2006
The diversity of a set of species refers to the joint dissimilarity of the species in the set. This paper discusses the measurement of diversity from the set of pairwise distances between the species…
SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF BOAT TRAFFIC ON BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS, TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS, IN SARASOTA BAY, FLORIDA
- S. M. Nowacek, R. Wells, A. Solow
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2001
Coastal cetaceans are subject to potential injury or disturbance from vessels. In Sarasota, Florida, where about 120 resident bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, share the inshore waters with…
Inferring Extinction from Sighting Data
- A. Solow
- Environmental Science
- 1 April 1993
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Inferring extinction from a sighting record.
- A. Solow
- Environmental ScienceMathematical biosciences
- 1 May 2005
A simple test for change in community structure
- A. Solow
- Environmental Science
- 1993
1. The effect of disturbance on a biological community is commonly measured by a change in an index of community structure. When such an index is calculated from a sample from the community, it is…
Inferring extinction in a declining population
- A. Solow
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 1993
This note describes a test for extinction in a declining population based on a record of sightings. The test assumes that, prior to extinction, the sightings follow a Poisson process with decreasing…
Acoustic alarms reduce porpoise mortality
- S. Kraus, A. Read, J. Williamson
- PhysicsNature
- 7 August 1997
The most serious danger to dolphins and porpoises around the world is the threat from various forms of gill-net fishing. One potential way to reduce the number of deaths of marine mammals is the use…
VALUE OF IMPROVED LONG‐RANGE WEATHER INFORMATION
An important human welfare implication of climate involves effects of interannual variation in temperature and precipitation on agriculture. Year-to-year variations in U.S. climate result from El…
Flightless birds: When did the dodo become extinct?
- D. Roberts, A. Solow
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 20 November 2003
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Individual recognition in wild bottlenose dolphins: a field test using playback experiments
- L. Sayigh, P. Tyack, R. Wells, A. Solow, Michael D. Scott, A. Irvine
- BiologyAnimal Behaviour
- 31 January 1999
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