Management and research applications of real-time and archival passive acoustic sensors over varying temporal and spatial scales

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 395, Issue , 2009, Pages 21-36

  Van Parijs, Sofie M ^a   Clark, Chris W ^b   Sousa Lima, Renata S ^b,c   Parks, Susan E ^d   Rankin, Shannon ^e   Risch, Denise ^a,f   Van Opzeeland, Ilse C ^g  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO BALEIA JUBARTE   (Brazil)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f Integrated Statistics   (United States)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archival arrays; Automated detection; Fish; Localization; Marine mammals; Mesoscale; Passive acoustics; Real time buoys; Towed arrays

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOMATION; BIOACOUSTICS; BUOY SYSTEM; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE MAMMAL; REAL TIME; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING; VOCALIZATION;

BRAZIL;

CETACEA; ERIGNATHUS; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; MAMMALIA; MEGAPTERA; MELANOGRAMMUS;

EID: 73449145650     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08123     Document Type: Article

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