Abundance Estimation of Long-Diving Animals Using Line Transect Methods

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 504-513

  Okamura, Hiroshi ^a   Minamikawa, Shingo ^a   Skaug, Hans J ^b   Kishiro, Toshiya ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cue production rate; G(0); Line transect sampling; Population size; Surfacing diving pattern

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CUE PRODUCTION RATE; G(0); LINE TRANSECT METHODS; LINE TRANSECT SAMPLING; POPULATION SIZES; PROBABILITY MODELLING; PRODUCTION RATES; SURFACING/DIVING PATTERN; TRANSECT SAMPLING;

HAZARDS;

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; WHALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANIMALIA; BERARDIUS BAIRDII; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 84862864764     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01689.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Alpizar-Jara, R. and Pollock, K. H. (1996). A combination line transect and capture recapture sampling model for multiple observers in aerial surveys. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 3, 311-327.
2. Barlow, J. (1999). Trackline detection probability for long-diving whales. In Marine Mammal Survey and Assessment Methods, G. W. Garner, S. C. Amstrup, J. L. Laake, B. F. J. Manly, L. L. McDonald, and D. G. Robertson (eds), 209-221. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Balkema.
3. Barlow, J., Ferguson, M. C., Perrin, W. F., Ballance, L., Gerrodette, T., Joyce, G., MacLeod, C. D., Mullin, K., Palka, D. L., and Waring, G. (2006). Abundance and densities of beaked and bottlenose whales (family Ziphiidae). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 7, 263-270.
4. Borchers, D. L., Buckland, S. T., Goedhart, P. W., Clarke, E. D., and Hedley, S. L. (1998). Horvitz-Thompson estimators for double-platform line transect surveys. Biometrics 54, 1221-1237.
5. Buckland, S. T. (1985). Perpendicular distance models for line transect sampling. Biometrics 41, 177-195.
6. Buckland, S. T., Anderson, D. R., Burnham, K. P., Laake, J. L., Borchers, D. L., and Thomas, L. (2001). Introduction to Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press.
7. Buckland, S. T., Anderson, D. R., Burnham, K. P., Laake, J. L., Borchers, D. L., and Thomas, L. (2004). Advanced Distance Sampling: Estimating Abundance of Biological Populations. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press.
8. Buckland, S. T., Laake, J. L., and Borchers, D. L. (2010). Double-observer line transect methods: Levels of independence. Biometrics 66, 169-177.
9. Cooke, J. G. (1997). An implementation of a surfacing-based approach to abundance estimation of minke whales from shipborne surveys. Report of the International Whaling Commission 47, 513-528.
10. Doi, T., Kasamatsu, F., and Nakano, T. (1982). A simulation study on sighting survey of minke whales in the Antarctic. Report of the International Whaling Commission 32, 919-928.
11. Efron, B. and Tibshirani, R. J. (1993). An Introduction to the Bootstrap. New York : Chapman and Hall.
12. Fewster, R. M., Buckland, S. T., Burnham, K. P., Borchers, D. L., Jupp, P. E., Laake, J. L., and Thomas, L. (2009). Estimating the encounter rate variance in distance sampling. Biometrics 65, 225-236.
13. Kasuya, T. (1987). Distribution and behavior of Baird's beaked whales off the Pacific coast of Japan. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute 37, 61-83.
14. Kasuya, T. (2007). Japanese whaling and other cetacean fisheries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 14, 39-48.
15. Laake, J. L., Calambokidis, J., Osmek, S. D., and Rugh, D. J. (1997). Probability of detecting harbor porpoise from aerial surveys: Estimating g(0). Journal of Wildlife Management 61, 63-75.
16. Marques, F. F. C. and Buckland, S. T. (2003). Incorporating covariates into standard line transect analyses. Biometrics 59, 924-935.
17. Marsh, H. and Sinclair, D. F. (1989). Correcting for visibility bias in strip transect aerial surveys of aquatic fauna. Journal of Wildlife Management 53, 1017-1024.
18. Minamikawa, S., Iwasaki, T., and Kishiro, T. (2007). Diving behaviour of a Baird's beaked whale, Berardius bairdii, in the slope water region of the western North Pacific: First dive records using a data logger. Fisheries Oceanography 16, 573-577.
19. Okamura, H. (2003). A line transect method to estimate abundance of long-diving animals. Fisheries Science 69, 1176-1181.
20. Okamura, H., Kitakado, T., Hiramatsu, K., and Mori, M. (2003). Abundance estimation of diving animals by the double-platform line transect method. Biometrics 59, 512-520.
21. Okamura, H., Kitakado, T., and Mori, M. (2005). An improved method for line transect sampling in Antarctic minke whale surveys. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 7, 97-106.
22. Okamura, H., Minamikawa, S., and Kitakado, T. (2006). Effect of surfacing patterns on abundance estimates of long-diving animals. Fisheries Science 72, 631-638.
23. Pawitan, Y. (2001). In all likelihood: Statistical modelling and inference using likelihood. Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press.
24. Schweder, T., Skaug, H. J., Dimakos, X. K., Langaas, M., and Øien, N. (1997). Abundance of northeastern Atlantic minke whales, estimates for 1989 and 1995. Report of the International Whaling Commission 47, 453-483.
25. Schweder, T., Skaug, H. J., Langaas, M., and Dimakos, X. K. (1999). Simulated likelihood methods for complex double-platform line transect surveys. Biometrics 55, 678-687.
26. Skaug, H. J. (2006). Markov modulated Poisson processes for clustered line transect data. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 13, 199-211.
27. Skaug, H. J. and Schweder, T. (1999). Hazard models for line transect surveys with independent observers. Biometrics 55, 29-36.
28. Thompson, S. K. (1992). Sampling. New York : Wiley Interscience.