Dusky dolphin: Modeling habitat selection

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-65

  Garaffo, Griselda V ^a,b   Dans, Silvana L ^a,b   Crespo, Enrique A ^a,b   Degrati, Mariana ^a,b   Giudici, Paula ^a   Gagliardini, Domingo A ^a,c  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Distribution modeling; Dusky dolphin; Generalized linear model; Habitat selection; Lagenorhynchus obscurus; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION STATUS; DOLPHIN; FIELD SURVEY; HABITAT SELECTION; LINEARITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOURISM MARKET;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; GOLFO NUEVO;

LAGENORHYNCHUS OBSCURUS;

EID: 77649127118     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-105R1.1.     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. AKAIKE, H. 1973. Information theory and an extension of maximum likelihood principle. Pp. 267-281 in International Symposium on Information Theory (B. N. Petran and F. Csàaki, eds.). Akadèemiai Kiadi, Budapest, Hungary.
2. BEJDER, L., A. SAMUELS, H. WHITEHEAD, N. GALES, AND J. MANN. 2006. Interpreting short-term behavioural responses to disturbance within a longitudinal perspective. Animal Behaviour 72:1149-1158.
3. BOYCE, M. S., AND L. L. MCDONALD. 1999. Relating populations to habitats using resource selection functions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 14:268-290.
4. BRÄGER, S., J. A. HARRAWAY, AND B. J. F. MANLY. 2003. Habitat selection in a coastal species (Cephalorhynchus hectori). Marine Biology 143:233-244.
5. BURNHAM, K. P., AND D. R. ANDERSON. 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference. 2nd ed. Springer-Verlag, New York.
6. CAÑADAS, A., R. SAGARMINAGA, AND S. GARCÍA-TISCAR. 2002. Cetacean distribution related with depth and slope in the Mediterranean waters off southern Spain. Deep Sea Research Part I 49:2053-2073.
7. CARRETTA, J. V., B. L. TAYLOR, AND S. J. CHIVERS. 2001. Abundance and depth distribution of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in northern California determined from a 1995 ship survey. Fishery Bulletin 99:29-39.
8. CONSTANTINE, R., D. H. BRUNTON, AND T. DENNIS. 2004. Dolphin-watching tour boats change bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) behaviour. Biological Conservation 117:299-307.
9. COSCARELLA, M. A., S. L. DANS, E. A. CRESPO, AND S. N. PEDRAZA. 2003. Potential impact of unregulated dolphin watching activities in Patagonia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 5:77-84.
10. CRESPO, A. E., ET AL. 1997. Distribution of dusky dolphins Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean with notes on the size of herds. International Whaling Commission Report 47:693-698.
11. DANS, S. L., E. A. CRESPO, M. KOEN ALONSO, AND S. N. PEDRAZA. 2003. Incidental catch of dolphins in trawling fisheries off Patagonia, Argentina: can populations persist? Ecological Applications 13:754-762.
12. DANS, S. L., E. A. CRESPO, S. N. PEDRAZA, M. DEGRATI, AND G. V. GARAFFO. 2008. Dusky dolphins and tourist interaction: effect on diurnal feeding behavior. Marine Ecology Progress Series 365:273-285.
13. DEGRATI, M., S. L. DANS, E. A. CRESPO, G. V. GARAFFO, AND A. CABREIRA. 2008a. Asociación entre delfines oscuros y anchoitas, su disposición espacial en el Golfo Nuevo, Argentina. 13u Reunión de Especialistas en Mamíferos Acuáticos de América del Sur, Montevideo, Uruguay.
14. DEGRATI, M., S. L. DANS, S. N. PEDRAZA, E. A. CRESPO, AND G. V. GARAFFO. 2008b. Diurnal behaviour of dusky dolphins, Lagenorhynchus obscurus, in Golfo Nuevo. Journal of Mammalogy 89:1241-1247.
15. FIELDINGS, A. H., AND J. F. BELL. 1997. A review of methods for the assessment of prediction errors in conservation presence/absence models. Environmental Conservation 34:38-40.
16. FORNEY, K. A. 2000. Environmental models of cetacean abundance: reducing uncertainty in population trends. Conservation Biology 14:1271-1286.
17. GANNON, W. L., R. S. SIKES, AND THE ANIMAL CARE AND USE COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAMMALOGISTS. 2007. Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research. Journal of Mammalogy 88:809-823.
18. GARAFFO, G. V., S. L. DANS, S. N. PEDRAZA, E. A. CRESPO, AND M. DEGRATI. 2007. Habitat use by dusky dolphin in Patagonia: how predictable is their location? Marine Biology 152:165-177.
19. GIBSON, L. A., B. A. WILSON, D. M. CAHILL, AND J. HILL. 2004. Spatial prediction of rufous bristlebird habitat in a coastal heathland: a GIS-based approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 41:213-223.
20. GREGR, E. J., AND A. W. TRITES. 2001. Predictions of critical habitat for five whale species in the waters of coastal British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:1265-1285.
21. GROSS, J. E., M. C. KNEELAND, D. F. REED, AND R. M. REICH. 2002. GIS-based models for mountain goats. Journal of Mammalogy 83:218-228.
22. HARRAWAY, J. 1995. Regression methods applied. University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand.
23. HASTIE, G. D., R. J. SWIFT, G. SLESSER, P. M. THOMPSON, AND W. R. TURRELL. 2005. Environmental models for predicting oceanic dolphin habitat in the northeast Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science 62:760-770.
24. HEINRICH, S. 2006. Ecology of Chilean dolphins and Peale's dolphins at Isla Chiloé, southern Chile. Ph.D. dissertation, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom.
25. HILL, J. K. 1999. Butterfly spatial distribution and habitat requirements in a tropical forest: impacts of selective logging. Journal of Applied Ecology 36:564-572.
26. HOOKER, S. K., H. WHITEHEAD, AND S. GOWANS. 1999. Marine protected area design and the spatial and temporal distribution of cetaceans in a submarine canyon. Conservation Biology 13:592-602.
27. HUTTO, R. L. 1985. Habitat selection by nonbreeding migratory land birds. Pp. 455-476 in Habitat selection in birds (M. L. Cody, ed.). Academic Press, Orlando, Florida.
28. JEGANATHAN, P., ET AL. 2004. Modelling habitat selection and distribution of the critically endangered Jerdon's courser Rhiptilus bitorquatus in scrub jungle: an application of a new tracking method. Journal of Applied Ecology 41:224-237.
29. KASCHNER, K. 2004. Modelling and mapping of resource overlap between marine mammals and fisheries on a global scale. Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
30. KOEN ALONSO, M., E. A. CRESPO, N. A. GARCÍA, S. N. PEDRAZA, AND M. A. COSCARELLA. 1998. Diet of dusky dolphins, Lagenorhynchus obscurus, in waters of Patagonia, Argentina. Fishery Bulletin 96:366-374.
31. LUSSEAU, D. 2003. The effects of tour boats on the behavior of bottlenose dolphins: using Markov chains to model anthropogenic impacts. Conservation Biology 17:1785-1793.
32. LUSSEAU, D., AND J. E. S. HIGHAM. 2004. Managing the impacts of dolphin-based tourism through the definition of critical habitats: the case of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.) in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Tourism Management 25:657-667.
33. MCCULLAGH, P., AND J. A. NELDER. 1983. Generalized linear models. Chapman and Hall, London, United Kingdom.
34. MANLY, B. J. F., L. L. MCDONALD, AND D. L. THOMAS. 1993. Resource selection by animals. Chapman and Hall, London, United Kingdom.
35. MANLY, B. J. F., L. L. MCDONALD, D. L. THOMAS, T. L. MCDONALD, AND W. P. ERICSSON. 2002. Resource selection by animals. 2nd ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
36. MOUZO, F. H., M. L. GARZA, J. F. IZQUIERDO, AND R. O. ZIBECCHI. 1978. Rasgos de la geología submarina del Golfo Nuevo. Acta Oceanográfica Argentina 2:15-32.
37. OLDEN, J. D., D. A. JACKSON, AND P. R. PERES-NETO. 2002. Predictive models of fish species distributions: a note on proper validation and chance predictions. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:329-336.
38. OLIVERA-GÓMEZ, L. D., AND E. MELLINK. 2005. Distribution of the Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus) as a function of habitat characteristics, in Bahía de Chetumal, México. Biological Conservation 121:127-133.
39. PEARCE, J., AND S. FERRIER. 2000. Evaluating the predictive performance of habitat models developed using logistic regression. Ecological Modelling 113:225-245.
40. POIRAZIDIS, K., V. GOUTNER, T. SKARTSI, AND G. STAMOU. 2004. Modelling nesting habitat as a conservation tool for the Eurasian black vulture (Aegypius monachus) in Dadia Nature Reserve, northeastern Greece. Biological Conservation 118:235-248.
41. REDFERN, J.V., ET AL. 2006. Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling. Marine Ecology Progress Series 310:271-295.
42. REILLY, S. B. 1990. Seasonal changes in distribution and habitat differences among dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series 66:1-11.
43. REILLY, S. B., AND P. C. FIEDLER. 1994. Interannual variability of dolphin habitats in the eastern tropical Pacific. I. Research vessel surveys 1986-1990. Fishery Bulletin 92:434-450.
44. RUSHTON, S. P., S. J. ORMEROD, AND G. KERBY. 2004. New paradigms for modeling species distribution? Journal of Applied Ecology 41:193-200.
45. SCOTT, M. D., R. S. WELLS, AND A. B. IRVINE. 1990. A long-term study of bottlenose dolphins on the west coast of Florida. Pp. 235-244 in The bottlenose dolphin (S. Leatherwood and R. R. Reeves, eds.). Academic Press, San Diego, California.
46. SHANE, S. H., R. S. WELLS, AND B. WÜRSIG. 1986. Ecology and social organization of the bottlenose dolphin: a review. Marine Mammal Science 2:34-63.
47. TORRES, L. G., P. E. ROSEL, C. D'AGROSA, AND A. J. READ. 2003. Improving management of overlapping bottlenose dolphin eco-types through spatial analysis and genetics. Marine Mammal Science 19:502-514.
48. VENABLES, W. N., AND C. M. DICHMONT. 2004. GLMs, GAM and GLMMs: an overview of theory for applications in fisheries research. Fisheries Research 70:319-337.
49. WARING, G. T., T. HAMAZAKI, D. SHEEHAN, G. WOOD, AND S. BAKER. 2001. Characterization of beaked whale (Ziphiidae) and sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) summer habitat in shelfedge and deeper waters off the northeast US. Marine Mammal Science 17:703-717.
50. WELLS, R. S., A. B. IRVINE, AND M. D. SCOTT. 1980. The social ecology of inshore odontocetes. Pp. 263-317 in Cetacean behavior: mechanisms and processes (L. M. Herman, ed.). Wiley, New York.