Defining the appropriate scale over which to conduct a study in the marine environment is
critical to achieving appropriate scientific, management, mitigation and conservation …

Evolutionary relationships among cetaceans within the family Delphinidae have been
difficult to resolve due to the high number of species and their relatively rapid radiation. This …

Passive acoustic monitoring of dolphins is limited by our ability to classify calls to species.
Significant overlap in call characteristics among many species, combined with a wide range …

The sea can be a vast place in which to live, both horizontally, with tens to thousands of
kilometers separating physical boundaries, and vertically, with depths ranging from a few …

Page 1 Victoria Todd Ian Todd Jane Gardiner & Erica Morrin # Marine Mannal Observer &
Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook Page 2 Marine Mammal Observer and Passive …

Long-term passive acoustic monitoring of cetaceans is frequently limited by the data storage
capacity and battery life of the recording system. Duty cycles are a mechanism for …

False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) feed primarily on several species of large
pelagic fish, species that are also targeted by the Hawai 'i-permitted commercial deep-set …

The article discusses the complete description of vocalizations of the rough-toothed dolphin,
Steno bredanensis, from multiple locations in the Pacific Ocean that will play a key role in …

Discrimination of bioacoustic signals to the species or population level is critical for using
passive acoustic monitoring to study cetacean ecology. Risso's dolphins off southern …

Use of underwater passive acoustic datasets for species-specific inference requires robust
classification systems to identify encounters to species from characteristics of detected …