Passive acoustic monitoring and visual sighting survey of cetacean occurrence patterns in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Passive acoustic monitoring and visual sighting survey of cetacean occurrence patterns in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Published:2024-02-14 Issue:3 Volume:40 Page:
ISSN:0824-0469
Container-title:Marine Mammal Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Marine Mammal Science

Author:

Duporge Isla¹²^ORCID,Lee Robert³,Eweida Ameer⁴,Mackelworth Peter⁵⁶,Ten Sofía⁷,Alghamdi Abdulaziz⁴,Alkhamis Razan⁴,Cochran Jesse⁸,Lee Stephen²,Klinck Holger⁹¹⁰

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Princeton New Jersey

2. The National Academy of Sciences Washington DC

3. Seiche Limited Langdon Road, Bradworth Devon UK

4. Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Environment Department, NEOM Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

5. Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Lošinj Marine Education Center Kaštel Veli Lošinj Croatia

6. Institute for Tourism Zagreb Croatia

7. Marine Zoology Unit, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology University of Valencia Spain

8. Red Sea Research Centre, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

9. K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University Ithaca New York

10. Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences Oregon State University Newport Oregon

Abstract

AbstractThe available data on occurrence patterns of cetaceans in the Red Sea area of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is very limited. The dearth of information is of pressing conservation concern as the coastline is undergoing rapid development as part of the Kingdom's effort to diversify its national economy. To understand how these developments will impact cetaceans in the region, the first large‐scale acoustic and visual survey in the Kingdom's part of the Gulf of Aqaba and the northeastern Red Sea was undertaken in 2020. The results of the acoustic surveys reveal 3.6 encounters per 100 km of track line of odontocete species with variable distribution across the study area. No baleen whale vocalizations were detected. Through visual surveys, five odontocete species were identified within the study area: Tursiops truncatus, T. aduncus, Stenella attenuata, S. longirostris, and two opportunistic sightings of a single Grampus griseus.

Publisher

Wiley

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mms.13113

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