Correlating military sonar use with beaked whale mass strandings: What do the historical data show?

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 435-444

  Filadelfo, Ronald ^a   Mintz, Jonathon ^a   Michlovich, Edward ^a   D'Amico, Angela ^b   Tyack, Peter L ^c   Ketten, Darlene R ^c,d  

^a CNA CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Balaenoptera; Beaked whales; Bootstrap reiterative estimation; Correlation analysis; Mass strandings; Mesoplodon; Military sonar; Stenella; Ziphiidae; Ziphius

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BOOTSTRAPPING; CORRELATION; SONAR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRANDING; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BALAENOPTERA; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON; STENELLA (CETACEA); ZIPHIIDAE; ZIPHIUS;

EID: 77951742834     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.35.4.2009.435     Document Type: Article

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