Local passive acoustic monitoring of Narwhal presence in the Canadian Arctic: A pilot project

Arctic

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-316

  Marcoux, Marianne ^a,b   Auger Méthé, Marie ^c,d   Chmelnitsky, Elly G ^e,f   Ferguson, Steven H ^e,f   Humphries, Murray M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal behaviour; Automated detection; Baffin Island; Marine mammal; Narwhal; Participatory monitoring

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOMATION; BAY; BIOACOUSTICS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MONITORING SYSTEM; SAMPLING; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NUNAVUT;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MONODON; MONODON MONOCEROS;

EID: 80052482446     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic4121     Document Type: Article

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