Signals from the deep: spatial and temporal acoustic occurrence of beaked whales off western ireland

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Kowarski, Katie, Delarue, Julien, Martin, Bruce, O’Brien, Joanne, Meade, Rossa, Ó. Cadhla, Oliver, Berrow, Simon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018
• Subjects: bottle-nosed whales; marine protected area; hyperoodon-ampullatus; ziphius-cavirostris; north-atlantic; mesoplodon-densirostris; foraging activity; diving behavior; cephalopods; strandings; Porcupine Bank; hyperoodon ampullatus; North Atlantic; Northern bottlenose whale; Sowerby's beaked whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10379/12307; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199431

Little is known of the spatio-temporal occurrence of beaked whales off western Ireland, limiting the ability of Regulators to implement appropriate management and conservation measures. To address this knowledge gap, static acoustic monitoring was carried out using eight fixed bottom-mounted autonom...