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Animal Counting Toolkit: a practical guide to small-boat surveys for estimating abundance of coastal marine mammals
| العنوان: | Animal Counting Toolkit: a practical guide to small-boat surveys for estimating abundance of coastal marine mammals |
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| المؤلفون: | Williams, R, Ashe, E, Gaut, K, Gryba, R, Moore, JE, Rexstad, E, Sandilands, D, Steventon, J, Reeves, RR |
| المصدر: | Endangered Species Research, Vol 34, Pp 149-165 (2017) |
| بيانات النشر: | Inter-Research, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Zoology LCC:Botany |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Zoology, QL1-991, Botany, QK1-989 |
| الوصف: | Small cetaceans (dolphins and porpoises) face serious anthropogenic threats in coastal habitats. These include bycatch in fisheries; exposure to noise, plastic and chemical pollution; disturbance from boaters; and climate change. Generating reliable abundance estimates is essential to assess sustainability of bycatch in fishing gear or any other form of anthropogenic removals and to design conservation and recovery plans for endangered species. Cetacean abundance estimates are lacking from many coastal waters of many developing countries. Lack of funding and training opportunities makes it difficult to fill in data gaps. Even if international funding were found for surveys in developing countries, building local capacity would be necessary to sustain efforts over time to detect trends and monitor biodiversity loss. Large-scale, shipboard surveys can cost tens of thousands of US dollars each day. We focus on methods to generate preliminary abundance estimates from low-cost, small-boat surveys that embrace a ëtraining-while-doing’ approach to fill in data gaps while simultaneously building regional capacity for data collection. Our toolkit offers practical guidance on simple design and field data collection protocols that work with small boats and small budgets, but expect analysis to involve collaboration with a quantitative ecologist or statistician. Our audience includes independent scientists, government conservation agencies, NGOs and indigenous coastal communities, with a primary focus on fisheries bycatch. We apply our Animal Counting Toolkit to a small-boat survey in Canada’s Pacific coastal waters to illustrate the key steps in collecting line transect survey data used to estimate and monitor marine mammal abundance. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1863-5407 1613-4796 |
| Relation: | https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v34/p149-165/; https://doaj.org/toc/1863-5407; https://doaj.org/toc/1613-4796 |
| DOI: | 10.3354/esr00845 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/b058739ea9aa48088541f7e37ec86f1a |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.b058739ea9aa48088541f7e37ec86f1a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 18635407 16134796 |
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| DOI: | 10.3354/esr00845 |