A sperm whale cautionary tale about estimating acoustic cue rates for deep divers.
| Autor: | Marques TA; Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, The Observatory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9LZ, Scotland., Marques CS; Centro de Estatística e Aplicações, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal., Gkikopoulou KC; Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, The Observatory, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, KY16 9LZ, Scotland. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America [J Acoust Soc Am] 2023 Sep 01; Vol. 154 (3), pp. 1577-1584. |
| DOI: | 10.1121/10.0020910 |
| Abstrakt: | Passive acoustic density estimation has been gaining traction in recent years. Cue counting uses detected acoustic cues to estimate animal abundance. A cue rate, the number of acoustic cues produced per animal per unit time, is required to convert cue density into animal density. Cue rate information can be obtained from animal borne acoustic tags. For deep divers, like beaked whales, data have been analyzed considering deep dive cycles as a natural sampling unit, based on either weighted averages or generalized estimating equations. Using a sperm whale DTAG (sound-and-orientation recording tag) example we compare different approaches of estimating cue rate from acoustic tags illustrating that both approaches used before might introduce biases and suggest that the natural unit of analysis should be the whole duration of the tag itself. (© 2023 Acoustical Society of America.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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