Final Technical Report: - Southwest Fisheries Science Center - NOAA
Final Technical Report: - Southwest Fisheries Science Center - NOAA
Final Technical Report: - Southwest Fisheries Science Center - NOAA
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Figure 15. The transect lines used to collect<br />
dolphin and oceanographic data in the California<br />
Current ecosystem are shown for 1991, 1993, 1996,<br />
and 2001. The locations of the largest 20% of<br />
temperature fronts at the 120 km resolution are<br />
shown as black dots for all years of data. Fronts<br />
were defined as the difference between the<br />
minimum and maximum temperatures recorded on<br />
a segment.<br />
Table 12. Number of encounters for the four species and six spatial resolutions considered in our<br />
California Current ecosystem analyses. The 120 km resolution has the highest number of encounters for<br />
several species because segments with Beaufort sea state values greater than 5.5 were excluded from our<br />
analyses. In particular, 2 km segments containing an encounter and occurring in Beaufort sea states greater<br />
than 5.5 may not contribute to the analyses at the smaller resolutions but may contribute at the larger<br />
resolutions if the average Beaufort sea state on the longer segment was less than or equal to 5.5.<br />
Spatial<br />
Resolution<br />
(km)<br />
Striped<br />
dolphin<br />
Shortbeaked<br />
common<br />
dolphin<br />
Risso’s<br />
dolphin<br />
Northern<br />
right whale<br />
dolphin<br />
Total<br />
number of<br />
segments<br />
2 28 177 37 30 8216<br />
10 29 184 38 30 1888<br />
20 29 188 38 30 966<br />
40 29 193 39 30 490<br />
60 29 191 39 30 329<br />
120 29 193 39 30 168<br />
Although the results of these analyses suggest that dolphin-habitat relationships in<br />
the CCE are resolution dependent (Fig. 16), instability in the models necessitates further<br />
analyses. The variables included in the models, their functional form, and the degree of<br />
difference among models built at the various resolutions changed when we looked at<br />
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