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Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

2013
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Biological Reviews

Marques, T., Thomas, L., Martin, S., Mellinger, D. et al.

Reliable estimation of the size or density of wild animal populations is very important for effective wildlife management, conservation and ecology. Currently, the most widely used...
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Keywords: Acoustic surveys, Bioacoustics, Density estimation, Distance sampling, Fixed sensors, Hydrophones, Passive acoustic monitoring, Spatially explicit capture-recapture

Behavioral responses affect distribution analyses of bowhead whales in the vicinity of seismic operations

2016
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Robertson, F. C., Koski, W. R. and Trites, A. W.

Aerial surveys are sometimes used to assess the densities of wide-ranging whales, as well as changes in their distributions in response to human activity. Such surveys...
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Keywords: Alaska, Availability, Beaufort Sea, Behavior, Bowhead whale, Distance sampling, G(0), Generalized additive model, Seismic survey, Spatial models