Live encounter data provides the first complete set of survival rate estimates for the Endangered Mediterranean monk seal birth into adulthood, as well as the first age-specific reproductive rates for the species.
A model-based localization approach is applied to account for errors not typically accounted for by the standard method of passive acoustic monitoring when conducting line-transect cetacean abundance surveys.
This case study illustrates use of a suite of routines designed to efficiently detect cetacean sounds, extract features, and classify the detection to species using ship-based, visually verified detections of false killer whales.
We demonstrate a combination of autonomous drifting acoustic recorders, environmental sampling and remote satellite data are powerful tools for studying the habitat dependent distribution of cryptic cetacean species in minimally studied and remote regions
By examining sighting histories, we infer that 25 unobserved pupping events that had previously gone uncounted. This is the highest reproductive rate reported for any of the Hawaiian monk seal breeding sites.
The present study compares trace element concentrations in green turtles in captivity at Sea Life Park Hawaii to wild green turtles in Kapoho Bay, Hawaii, USA.
Through simulation, we show that ERFs outperform Random Forest with and without down-sampling, as well as with the synthetic minority over-sampling technique, for highly class imbalanced to balanced datasets.