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| Making sense of censuses and dealing with missing data: trends in pup counts of Cape fur seal Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus for the period 1972–2004 SP Kirkman, WH Oosthuizen, MA Meÿer, PGH Kotze, JP Roux, ... African Journal of Marine Science 29 (2), 161-176, 2007 | 63 | 2007 |
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| Spatio‐temporal shifts of the dynamic Cape fur seal population in southern Africa, based on aerial censuses (1972–2009) SP Kirkman, D Yemane, WH Oosthuizen, MA Meÿer, PGH Kotze, ... Marine Mammal Science 29 (3), 497-524, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
| Habitat modelling of tracking data from multiple marine predators identifies important areas in the Southern Indian Ocean RR Reisinger, B Raymond, MA Hindell, MN Bester, RJM Crawford, ... Diversity and Distributions 24 (4), 535-550, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| Dynamic age-distributions in a declining population of southern elephant seals PA Pistorius, MN Bester, SP Kirkman Antarctic Science 11, 445-450, 1999 | 41 | 1999 |
| Riparian vegetation: degradation, alien plant invasions, and restoration prospects JC Stromberg, SP Kirkman, P Pysek, RJ Hobbs Divers Distrib 13 (1), 126139, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| Diet of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus at three mainland breeding colonies in Namibia. 1. Spatial variation S Mecenero, JP Roux, LG Underhill, MN Bester African Journal of Marine Science 28 (1), 57-71, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
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