[MARMAM] UPDATE: SOCPROG 2.6, and generalized affiliation indices

/hwhitehe/social.htm. This version includes new a network diagram drawing routine, and calculates and analyzes generalized affiliation indices, which I think may be of value to some users (see below). The new version is compatible with MATLAB2015a and also fixes a few bugs. I hope this helps. Let

[MARMAM] Paper: Conflicting rates of increase in the sperm whale population of the eastern Caribbean

We would like to announce the publication of the following paper: H. Whitehead and S. Gero (2015) Conflicting rates of increase in the sperm whale population of the eastern Caribbean: positive rates do not reflect a healthy population. Endangered Species Research 27: 207–218 Abstract: Obse

[MARMAM] Inferring Animal Densities from Tracking Data Using Markov Chains

MARMAM readers may be interested in this paper: Whitehead H, Jonsen ID (2013) Inferring Animal Densities from Tracking Data Using Markov Chains. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60901. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060901 Available at: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.006 0901 A

[MARMAM] Status of northern bottlenose whale

We have just published a paper entitled "Uncertain status of the northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus: population fragmentation, legacy of whaling and current threats". It is available on Open Access at: http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v19/n1/p47-61/ The abstract is below. Ha

[MARMAM] Industrial Research Chairs in Marine Animal Tracking

Dalhousie University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology. The Department of Biology at Dalhousie University (http://biology.dal.ca) is accepting applications for two Industrial Research Chairs, a Senior and an Associate Chair, both to work in collaboration with AMIRIX-VEMCO (http://www.v

[MARMAM] ABSTRACT: Estimating Abundance From One-Dimensional Passive Acoustic Surveys

The following paper may be of interest. A .pdf of this paper (and others) is available at: http://whitelab.biology.dal.ca/labpub.htm Hal Whitehead Estimating Abundance From One-Dimensional Passive Acoustic Surveys ABSTRACT Conventional distance sampling, the most-used method of estimating an

[MARMAM] Abstract: Diversity of deep-water cetaceans and global warming

The following paper has recently been published: Whitehead, H., B. McGill and B. Worm. 2008. Diversity of deep- water cetaceans in relation to temperature: implications for ocean warming. Ecology Letters 11: 1198-1207. Abstract: Understanding the effects of natural environmental variation on