Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations
The study was supported by major grants from the Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc., the Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, and the Winifred Violet Scott Estate to M.J.N. and E.C.G. and from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to the South...
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Acoustic display Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae Population structure Song South Pacific Vocal Whale culture Canto Cultivo de ballenas Demostracion acustica Estructura poblacional Sur del Pacifico Yubarta GE Environmental Sciences GC Oceanography QH301 Biology BDC R2C GE GC QH301 Garland, Ellen C. Goldizen, Anne W. Lilley, Matthew S. Rekdahl, Melinda L. Garrigue, Claire Constantine, Rochelle Hauser, Nan Daeschler Poole, M. Michael Robbins, Jooke Noad, Michael J. Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations |
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Acoustic display Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae Population structure Song South Pacific Vocal Whale culture Canto Cultivo de ballenas Demostracion acustica Estructura poblacional Sur del Pacifico Yubarta GE Environmental Sciences GC Oceanography QH301 Biology BDC R2C GE GC QH301 |
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The study was supported by major grants from the Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc., the Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, and the Winifred Violet Scott Estate to M.J.N. and E.C.G. and from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium (SPWRC). For cetaceans, population structure is traditionally determined by molecular genetics or photographically identified individuals. Acoustic data, however, has provided information on movement and population structure with less effort and cost than traditional methods in an array of taxa. Male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) produce a continually evolving vocal sexual display, or song, that is similar among all males in a population. The rapid cultural transmission (the transfer of information or behavior between conspecifics through social learning) of different versions of this display between distinct but interconnected populations in the western and central South Pacific region presents a unique way to investigate population structure based on the movement dynamics of a song (acoustic) display. Using 11 years of data, we investigated an acoustically based population structure for the region by comparing stereotyped song sequences among populations and years. We used the Levenshtein distance technique to group previously defined populations into (vocally based) clusters based on the overall similarity of their song display in space and time. We identified the following distinct vocal clusters: western cluster, 1 population off eastern Australia; central cluster, populations around New Caledonia, Tonga, and American Samoa; and eastern region, either a single cluster or 2 clusters, one around the Cook Islands and the other off French Polynesia. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that each breeding aggregation represents a distinct population (each occupied a single, terminal node) in a metapopulation, similar to the current understanding of population ... |
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Garland, Ellen C. Goldizen, Anne W. Lilley, Matthew S. Rekdahl, Melinda L. Garrigue, Claire Constantine, Rochelle Hauser, Nan Daeschler Poole, M. Michael Robbins, Jooke Noad, Michael J. |
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Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations |
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Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations |
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Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations |
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Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations |
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Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations |
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population structure of humpback whales in the western and central south pacific ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations |
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/8568 2023-07-02T03:32:32+02:00 Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations Garland, Ellen C. Goldizen, Anne W. Lilley, Matthew S. Rekdahl, Melinda L. Garrigue, Claire Constantine, Rochelle Hauser, Nan Daeschler Poole, M. Michael Robbins, Jooke Noad, Michael J. University of St Andrews. School of Biology University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity 2016-04-07 10 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8568 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12492 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12492/suppinfo eng eng Conservation Biology Garland , E C , Goldizen , A W , Lilley , M S , Rekdahl , M L , Garrigue , C , Constantine , R , Hauser , N D , Poole , M M , Robbins , J & Noad , M J 2015 , ' Population structure of humpback whales in the western and central South Pacific Ocean as determined by vocal exchange among populations ' , Conservation Biology , vol. 29 , no. 4 , pp. 1198-1207 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12492 0888-8892 PURE: 208045337 PURE UUID: ec9e9430-4862-495c-807d-a65d4f1190eb WOS: 000357981200026 Scopus: 84937073282 ORCID: /0000-0002-8240-1267/work/49580215 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8568 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12492 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12492/suppinfo © 2016, Publisher / the Author(s). This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com / https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12492 Acoustic display Humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae Population structure Song South Pacific Vocal Whale culture Canto Cultivo de ballenas Demostracion acustica Estructura poblacional Sur del Pacifico Yubarta GE Environmental Sciences GC Oceanography QH301 Biology BDC R2C GE GC QH301 Journal article 2016 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12492 2023-06-13T18:26:59Z The study was supported by major grants from the Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc., the Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, and the Winifred Violet Scott Estate to M.J.N. and E.C.G. and from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium (SPWRC). For cetaceans, population structure is traditionally determined by molecular genetics or photographically identified individuals. Acoustic data, however, has provided information on movement and population structure with less effort and cost than traditional methods in an array of taxa. Male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) produce a continually evolving vocal sexual display, or song, that is similar among all males in a population. The rapid cultural transmission (the transfer of information or behavior between conspecifics through social learning) of different versions of this display between distinct but interconnected populations in the western and central South Pacific region presents a unique way to investigate population structure based on the movement dynamics of a song (acoustic) display. Using 11 years of data, we investigated an acoustically based population structure for the region by comparing stereotyped song sequences among populations and years. We used the Levenshtein distance technique to group previously defined populations into (vocally based) clusters based on the overall similarity of their song display in space and time. We identified the following distinct vocal clusters: western cluster, 1 population off eastern Australia; central cluster, populations around New Caledonia, Tonga, and American Samoa; and eastern region, either a single cluster or 2 clusters, one around the Cook Islands and the other off French Polynesia. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that each breeding aggregation represents a distinct population (each occupied a single, terminal node) in a metapopulation, similar to the current understanding of population ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Ballenas ENVELOPE(-64.167,-64.167,-65.183,-65.183) Pacific Tonga ENVELOPE(7.990,7.990,63.065,63.065) Conservation Biology 29 4 1198 1207 |