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Personal Author:
Barlow, Jay ; Ballance, Lisa T. (Lisa Taylor) ; Forney, Karin A.
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Corporate Authors:
Southwest Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
NOAA Program & Office:
NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SWFSC (Southwest Fisheries Science Center)
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Description:
"Effective strip width is a key parameter in estimating abundance and density from line- transect surveys. Here we estimate effective strip widths for 58 categories (genera, species, subspecies, stocks, or other groups) of cetaceans based on 13,500 sightings from 32 line-transect surveys conducted in the eastern Pacific Ocean by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center from 1991 to 2008. Generalized linear models (GLMs) are used to first identify factors that are important in determining the perpendicular sigh ting distances using stepwise model selection based on AIC. Six species groups of similar taxa are created and modeled separately. Important factors for most species groups include Beaufort sea state, swell height, visibility, group size, species, and a survey-specific categorical variable (Cruise#). Interactions between species and the other factors generally do not improve GLM fits, indicating that the effects of those factors are relatively consistent for species within a species group. Factors selected for the best-fit GLMs are included as potential covariates in a line-transect model fit to a subset of the same data, again using stepwise model selection based on AIC. The best-fit line-transect models do not include Cruise# and are generally simpler than the GLMs, likely because distant sightings were eliminated by truncation. Species-specific differences in ESW are seen within the species groups indicating that species of cetacean do differ in the distances at which they can be detected, even after accounting for the effects of group size and other covariates that affect sighting distances. Results from this analysis of multiple surveys can be used to improve estimates of effective strip widths for any survey using the same methods and similar vessels. This is especially true for seldom-seen species whose abundance is difficult to estimate from a single survey"--Abstract.
Content Notes:
Jay Barlow, Lisa T. Ballance, and Karin A. Forney.

"November 2011."

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Includes bibliographical references (page 14).


Keywords:
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Cetacea Populations
Estimates
Marine Mammal Populations
Mathematical Models

Series:
NOAA technical memorandum NMFS ; NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC ; 484
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Document Type:
Technical Memorandum
Place as Subject:
Pacific Ocean
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Public Domain
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