Achieving consensus and convergence on a towed array passive acoustic monitoring standard for marine mammal monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 2934-2934
Author(s):  
Aaron Thode ◽  
Shane Guan
Polar Biology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 1127-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Marcoux ◽  
Steven H. Ferguson ◽  
Nathalie Roy ◽  
Jeannette M. Bedard ◽  
Yvan Simard

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (4) ◽  
pp. 2804-2804
Author(s):  
Ally Rice ◽  
Ana Širović ◽  
Jennifer Trickey ◽  
John Hildebrand ◽  
Simone Baumann-Pickering

2020 ◽  
Vol 638 ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
I Van Opzeeland ◽  
H Hillebrand

To date, the majority of studies investigating marine mammal distribution and behavior take a single-species perspective, which is often driven by the logistic difficulties of collecting appropriate data at sea. Passive acoustic monitoring, provided recording tools exhibit sufficient bandwidth, has the potential to provide insights into community structure as devices operate autonomously simultaneously collecting data on baleen, pinniped and toothed whale acoustic presence. Data can provide information on local species diversity, residency times and co-occurrence. Here, we used multi-year passive acoustic data from 6 sites in the Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean, to explore how local marine mammal community compositions develop over time and in relation to sea-ice. Diversity peaked in austral late spring and early summer, shortly before seasonal sea-ice break-up. The effective number of species exhibited little variation over time, reflecting that species remain in Antarctic waters throughout austral winter. Community composition showed almost complete seasonal overturn, indicating that species replace each other throughout the year. For all 6 sites, community dissimilarity increased with increasing temporal distance, reflecting temporal trends in community composition beyond seasonality. Several species exhibited significant positive or negative co-occurrence patterns over time. These seasonal associations were consistent across all 5 oceanic sites, but partly inversed at the Western Antarctic Peninsula recording site. This study shows that the application of biodiversity metrics to passive acoustic monitoring data can foster insights into the timing of behaviors and community composition, which can boost the interpretation of responses in the light of ongoing environmental changes.


2018 ◽  
Vol 590 ◽  
pp. 247-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
CE Malinka ◽  
DM Gillespie ◽  
JDJ Macaulay ◽  
R Joy ◽  
CE Sparling

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