Estimating the abundance of marine mammal populations

PS Hammond, TB Francis, D Heinemann… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Motivated by the need to estimate the abundance of marine mammal populations to inform
conservation assessments, especially relating to fishery bycatch, this paper provides …

Review on methods used for wildlife species and individual identification

T Petso, RS Jamisola Jr, D Mpoeleng - European Journal of Wildlife …, 2022 - Springer
This work presented a literature review on animal species and individual identification tools,
as well as animal monitoring capabilities. We gathered the literature to cover different …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in marine mammal research: A review of current applications and challenges

M Álvarez-González, P Suarez-Bregua, GJ Pierce… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Research on the ecology and biology of marine mammal populations is necessary to
understand ecosystem dynamics and to support conservation management. Emerging …

Movement pathways and habitat use of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) in the Western Mediterranean Sea: Distribution in relation to environmental factors, reproductive …

F Poisson, H Demarcq, S Coudray, J Bohn… - Fisheries …, 2024 - Elsevier
The blue shark (Prionace glauca), a highly migratory and wide-ranging shark, has been
classified as Critically Endangered in the Mediterranean Sea by the International Union for …

A spatial capture–recapture model to estimate call rate and population density from passive acoustic surveys

BC Stevenson, P van Dam‐Bates… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models are commonly used to estimate animal population
density from detections and subsequent redetections of individuals across space. In …

Wildlife population assessment: changing priorities driven by technological advances

ST Buckland, DL Borchers, TA Marques… - Journal of Statistical …, 2023 - Springer
Advances in technology are having a large effect on the priorities for innovation in statistical
ecology. Collaborations between statisticians and ecologists have always been important in …

Combining passive acoustic data from a towed hydrophone array with visual line transect data to estimate abundance and availability bias of sperm whales (Physeter …

DB Sigourney, A DeAngelis, D Cholewiak, D Palka - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Visual line transect (VLT) surveys are central to the monitoring and study of marine
mammals. However, for cryptic species such as deep diving cetaceans VLT surveys alone …

A novel multimodal framework for automatic recognition of individual cattle based on hybrid features using sparse stacked denoising autoencoder and group sparse …

S Kumar, S Kumar, M Shafi, MK Chaube - Multimedia Tools and …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, visual animal bio-metrics have attracted much attention for identifying endangered
species and animals based on their prominent bio-metric features. This study explores a …

Narwhal abundance in the eastern Canadian High Arctic in 2013

T Doniol-Valcroze, JF Gosselin, DG Pike… - NAMMCO Scientific …, 2019 - septentrio.uit.no
In summer, narwhals (Monodon monoceros) migrate from Baffin Bay to northeastern
Canada and northwest Greenland, where they are hunted by Inuit for subsistence. To …

Accommodating false positives within acoustic spatial capture–recapture, with variable source levels, noisy bearings and an inhomogeneous spatial density

FT Petersma, L Thomas, AM Thode, D Harris… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - Springer
Passive acoustic monitoring is a promising method for surveying wildlife populations that are
easier to detect acoustically than visually. When animal vocalisations can be uniquely …