Carla Freitas

Postdoc, marine mammal ecology
Carla Freitas
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Phone+47 77 75 05 52
Work placeTromsø
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References/Bibliography

Peer-reviewed publications

Lydersen C, Freitas C, Wiig O, Bachmann L, Heide-Jorgensen MP, Swift R & Kovacs KM (in press) Lost highway not forgotten: satellite tracking of a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) from the critically endangered Spitsbergen stock. Arctic

Albert OT, Lambert Y, Vollen T, Freitas C, Heggebakken L (in press) Distinguishing pelagic and demersal swimming of deepwater flatfish by recording of body angles. In Advances in Fish Tagging and Marking Technology. American Fisheries Society.

McCarthya AL, Heppella S, Royerb F, Freitas C & Dellinger D (2010) Identification of likely foraging habitat of pelagic loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the North Atlantic through analysis of telemetry track sinuosity. Progress in Oceanography, 86: 224-231

Freitas C, Kovacs KM, Ims RA, Fedak MA, Lydersen C (2009) Deep into the ice: Over-wintering and habitat selection in male Atlantic walruses. Marine Ecoloy Progress Series, 375: 247-261

Freitas C, Kovacs KM, Ims RA, Lydersen C (2008) Predicting habitat use by ringed seals (Phoca hispida) in a warming Arctic. Ecological Modelling, 217: 19-32

Freitas C, Kovacs KM, Lydersen C, Ims RA (2008) A novel method for quantifying habitat selection and predicting habitat use. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1213-1220

Freitas C, Kovacs KM, Ims RA, Fedak MA, Lydersen C (2008) Ringed seal post-moulting movement tactics and habitat selection. Oecologia, 155: 193-204

Freitas C, Lydersen C, Fedak MA, Kovacs KM (2008) A simple new algorithm to filter marine mammal Argos locations. Marine Mammal Science, 24(2): 315-325

Freitas CMA, Dellinger T, Reiner F (1998) First record of Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, Stenella frontalis G. CUVIER, 1829 (Cetacea: Delphinidae) from the Archipelago of Madeira. Bocagiana, 190: 1-5.

 

Books

Freitas L, Antunes R, Freitas C & Pires R, 2002. Mamiferos Marinhos do Arquipelago da Madeira. Biodiversidade Madeirense: Avaliacao e Conservacao II. Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais. Funchal, 71pp.
[Title in English: Marine Mammals of Madeira Archipelago]

Freitas C & Dellinger T, 1999. Tartarugas Marinhas na Madeira. Projecto Tartarugas Marinhas, Universidade da Madeira. Funchal, 52pp.
[Title in English: Sea turtles of Madeira]

 

Software

R package "argosfilter", available at http://cran.r-project.org/