Effects of duty-cycled passive acoustic recordings on detecting the presence of beaked whales in the northwest Atlantic.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
This study investigated the effects of using duty-cycled passive acoustic recordings to monitor the daily presence of beaked whale species at three locations in the northwest Atlantic. Continuous acoustic records were subsampled to simulate duty cycles of 50%, 25%, and 10% and cycle period durations from 10 to 60 min. Short, frequent listening periods were most effective for assessing the daily presence of beaked whales. Furthermore, subsampling at low duty cycles led to consistently greater underestimation of Mesoplodon species than either Cuvier's beaked whales or northern bottlenose whales, leading to a potential bias in estimation of relative species occurrence.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Stanistreet, JE; Nowacek, DP; Read, AJ; Baumann-Pickering, S; Moors-Murphy, HB; Van Parijs, SM
Published Date
- July 2016
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 140 / 1
Start / End Page
- EL31 -
PubMed ID
- 27475208
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1520-8524
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0001-4966
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1121/1.4955009
Language
- eng