Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea
Funding for the ASAMM project is from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Interagency Agreements M07RG13260 and M11PG00033 (C. Monnett, R. Denton, and C. Fairfield). Funding for the NOAA mooring and analysis is from BOEM: CHAOZ–M09PG00016 (C. Monnett and H. Crowley) and ARCWEST–M12PG00021 (C. M...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/23723 2023-07-02T03:31:45+02:00 Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Blackwell, Susanna B. Thode, Aaron M. Conrad, Alexander S. Ferguson, Megan C. Berchok, Catherine L. Stafford, Kathleen M. Marques, Tiago A. Kim, Katherine H. University of St Andrews. Statistics University of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling 2021-08-05T11:30:08Z 15 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23723 https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005043 eng eng Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Blackwell , S B , Thode , A M , Conrad , A S , Ferguson , M C , Berchok , C L , Stafford , K M , Marques , T A & Kim , K H 2021 , ' Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus , during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea ' , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , vol. 149 , no. 5 , pp. 3611-3625 . https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005043 0001-4966 PURE: 274529956 PURE UUID: f5c113fd-04da-4f7d-872b-5a063751de27 Jisc: c16f51fe4dc64e30b29ca1444d7e911d ORCID: /0000-0002-2581-1972/work/95418369 Scopus: 85106857233 WOS: 000656874200003 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23723 https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005043 Copyright © 2021 Acoustical Society of America. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005043. Acoustics and Ultrasonics QA Mathematics QH301 Biology QL Zoology NDAS QA QH301 QL Journal article 2021 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005043 2023-06-13T18:27:42Z Funding for the ASAMM project is from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Interagency Agreements M07RG13260 and M11PG00033 (C. Monnett, R. Denton, and C. Fairfield). Funding for the NOAA mooring and analysis is from BOEM: CHAOZ–M09PG00016 (C. Monnett and H. Crowley) and ARCWEST–M12PG00021 (C. Monnett, J. Denton, and H. Crowley). Funding for the UW mooring and analysis is from National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Grant No. N00014-08-1-0311 and National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Nos. ARC-0856244 and ARC-855828 to K.M.S. from the Office of Polar Programs of the NSF. T.A.M.’s time was covered by the Living Marine Resources (LMR) ACCURATE project (Contract No. N3943019C2176) and partial support by the Center of Statistics and its Applications (CEAUL) (funded by FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through Project No. UIDB/00006/2020). Eight years of passive acoustic data (2007–2014) from the Beaufort Sea were used to estimate the mean cue rate (calling rate) of individual bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) during their fall migration along the North Slope of Alaska. Calls detected on directional acoustic recorders (DASARs) were triangulated to provide estimates of locations at times of call production, which were then translated into call densities (calls/h/km2). Various assumptions were used to convert call density into animal cue rates, including the time for whales to cross the arrays of acoustic recorders, the population size, the fraction of the migration corridor missed by the localizing array system, and the fraction of the seasonal migration missed because recorders were retrieved before the end of the migration. Taking these uncertainties into account in various combinations yielded up to 351 cue rate estimates, which summarize to a median of 1.3 calls/whale/h and an interquartile range of 0.5–5.4 calls/whale/h. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Balaena mysticetus Beaufort Sea north slope Alaska University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149 5 3611 3625 |
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Funding for the ASAMM project is from Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Interagency Agreements M07RG13260 and M11PG00033 (C. Monnett, R. Denton, and C. Fairfield). Funding for the NOAA mooring and analysis is from BOEM: CHAOZ–M09PG00016 (C. Monnett and H. Crowley) and ARCWEST–M12PG00021 (C. Monnett, J. Denton, and H. Crowley). Funding for the UW mooring and analysis is from National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Grant No. N00014-08-1-0311 and National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Nos. ARC-0856244 and ARC-855828 to K.M.S. from the Office of Polar Programs of the NSF. T.A.M.’s time was covered by the Living Marine Resources (LMR) ACCURATE project (Contract No. N3943019C2176) and partial support by the Center of Statistics and its Applications (CEAUL) (funded by FCT–Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, through Project No. UIDB/00006/2020). Eight years of passive acoustic data (2007–2014) from the Beaufort Sea were used to estimate the mean cue rate (calling rate) of individual bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) during their fall migration along the North Slope of Alaska. Calls detected on directional acoustic recorders (DASARs) were triangulated to provide estimates of locations at times of call production, which were then translated into call densities (calls/h/km2). Various assumptions were used to convert call density into animal cue rates, including the time for whales to cross the arrays of acoustic recorders, the population size, the fraction of the migration corridor missed by the localizing array system, and the fraction of the seasonal migration missed because recorders were retrieved before the end of the migration. Taking these uncertainties into account in various combinations yielded up to 351 cue rate estimates, which summarize to a median of 1.3 calls/whale/h and an interquartile range of 0.5–5.4 calls/whale/h. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed |
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Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea |
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Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea |
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Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea |
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Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea |
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Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea |
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estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, balaena mysticetus, during their fall migration through the alaskan beaufort sea |
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Blackwell , S B , Thode , A M , Conrad , A S , Ferguson , M C , Berchok , C L , Stafford , K M , Marques , T A & Kim , K H 2021 , ' Estimating acoustic cue rates in bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus , during their fall migration through the Alaskan Beaufort Sea ' , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , vol. 149 , no. 5 , pp. 3611-3625 . https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005043 0001-4966 PURE: 274529956 PURE UUID: f5c113fd-04da-4f7d-872b-5a063751de27 Jisc: c16f51fe4dc64e30b29ca1444d7e911d ORCID: /0000-0002-2581-1972/work/95418369 Scopus: 85106857233 WOS: 000656874200003 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/23723 https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005043 |
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