Estimating cetacean population density using fixed passive acoustic sensors: An example with Blainville's beaked whales

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1982-1994

  Marques, Tiago A ^a   Thomas, Len ^a   Ward, Jessica ^b   Dimarzio, Nancy ^b   Tyack, Peter L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; BAHAMAS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEEP DIVES; FALSE POSITIVE DETECTIONS; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC SENSORS; POPULATION DENSITIES;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ANIMALS; HYDROPHONES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSORS;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; BAHAMAS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSOR; WHALE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CETACEA; ECHOLOCATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 64649097384     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3089590     Document Type: Article

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