Variation in foraging activity influences area-restricted search behaviour by bottlenose dolphins

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Fernandez Betelu, Oihane, Iorio-Merlo, Virginia, Graham, Isla, Cheney, Barbara, Prentice, Simone, Cheng, Xi, Thompson, Paul
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: SDG 14 - Life Below Water; Area-restricted search behaviour; Echolocation buzzes; Bray calls; Bottlenose dolphins; Machine learning; Passive acoustics; QH301 Biology; QH301; Marine Mammal Monitoring
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/20855; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221613

Open Access via the Royal Society Agreement Beatrice Offshore Wind Ltd COWRIE Department of Energy & Climate Change, Scottish Government Fundación la Caixa (becas Posgrado, 2015) Marine Mammal Monitoring Programme (MMMP) Marine Scotland Science Moray Offshore Wind Farm (East) Ltd NatureScot Funding This project was made possible through the integration of O.F.B.'s PhD into a broader NatureScot and joint industry funded Marine Mammal Monitoring Programme (MMMP) that supports statutory monitoring of the Moray Firth SAC and offshore windfarm construction. We thank NatureScot, Marine Scotland Science, Beatrice Offshore Wind Ltd, Moray Offshore Wind Farm (East) Ltd, Department of Energy & Climate Change, Scottish Government, Oil & Gas UK and COWRIE for contributing funds or equipment to the MMMP. O.F.B. was funded through a studentship from the Fundación ‘la Caixa’ (Becas Posgrado, 2015). I.M.G., B.J.C. and P.M.T. were core funded by the University of Aberdeen but with salary support for the period of this study though contract to MMMP. V.I.M. and S.M.P. were funded through the MMMP. R.X.C. was core funded by Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW). Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Maxwell High Performance Computing Cluster, funded by the University of Aberdeen, during the development of DOLPHIN-SPOT. We would also like to thank Claudia Aparicio Estaella for her help during the validation of the automatic detector. We acknowledge Bill Ruck, Moray First Marine and colleagues from the University of Aberdeen for assistance with the data collection and anonymous reviewers for comments that helped improve the manuscript. Peer reviewed