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Repository and research compendium in support of the manuscript "Spring haul-out behavior of seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas." Maintained by Josh London (@jmlondon / josh.london@noaa.gov)
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remove paragraph in introduction re: importance of trends #15

Closed jmlondon closed 2 months ago

jmlondon commented 2 years ago

@pconn suggests we consider removing the following paragraph from the introduction or including some of the key points within the Discussion section

Ultimately, knowledge of trends in phenology and abundance (or life history surrogates such as survival and recruitment) will be necessary to make credible quantitative predictions about the effects of climate disruptions on the abundance and distribution of Arctic seal populations. Before we can construct a trend, however, we first require a baseline. Several studies have contributed estimates of the distribution and abundance of ice-associated seal species in the Arctic using aerial surveys (e.g., [@bengtson2005a], [@conn2014a], and [@verhoef2014a]). Such abundance studies were conducted over very large areas and estimation of absolute abundance required making inference about numerous issues affecting the observation of seals on ice. These included availability (only seals basking on ice were available to be counted), detection probability (observers or automated detection systems may have missed some seals on ice), species misclassification, and possible disturbance of seals by aircraft [@conn2014a; @verhoef2014a]. Refining these inferences will improve the accuracy of abundance estimates in the Arctic.

jmlondon commented 2 years ago

I'm going to leave this where it is (in the Intro) for now. But, I'm not going to close this Issue b/c I think it's worth revisiting once we get peer reviews in.

jmlondon commented 2 months ago

addressed in accepted publication