Further understanding the distribution patterns of sperm whale populations in Hawaiʻi and contributing methods for building species distribution models.
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 2005-2013 study confirms the broad distribution of sperm whales across the North Pacific and highlights subtle temporal patterns in their acoustic activity, which may be related to shifts in animal behavior or movement.
