Near-real-time acoustic monitoring of beaked whales and other cetaceans using a Seaglider™.

In most areas, estimating the presence and distribution of cryptic marine mammal species, such as beaked whales, is extremely difficult using traditional observational techniques such as ship-based visual line transect surveys. Because acoustic methods permit detection of animals underwater, at nigh...

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Main Authors: Holger Klinck, David K Mellinger, Karolin Klinck, Neil M Bogue, James C Luby, William A Jump, Geoffrey B Shilling, Trina Litchendorf, Angela S Wood, Gregory S Schorr, Robin W Baird
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3356361?pdf=render