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Figure 15. The transect lines used to collect dolphin and oceanographic data in the California Current ecosystem are shown for 1991, 1993, 1996, and 2001. The locations of the largest 20% of temperature fronts at the 120 km resolution are shown as black dots for all years of data. Fronts were defined as the difference between the minimum and maximum temperatures recorded on a segment. Table 12. Number of encounters for the four species and six spatial resolutions considered in our California Current ecosystem analyses. The 120 km resolution has the highest number of encounters for several species because segments with Beaufort sea state values greater than 5.5 were excluded from our analyses. In particular, 2 km segments containing an encounter and occurring in Beaufort sea states greater than 5.5 may not contribute to the analyses at the smaller resolutions but may contribute at the larger resolutions if the average Beaufort sea state on the longer segment was less than or equal to 5.5. Spatial Resolution (km) Striped dolphin Shortbeaked common dolphin Risso’s dolphin Northern right whale dolphin Total number of segments 2 28 177 37 30 8216 10 29 184 38 30 1888 20 29 188 38 30 966 40 29 193 39 30 490 60 29 191 39 30 329 120 29 193 39 30 168 Although the results of these analyses suggest that dolphin-habitat relationships in the CCE are resolution dependent (Fig. 16), instability in the models necessitates further analyses. The variables included in the models, their functional form, and the degree of difference among models built at the various resolutions changed when we looked at 56
different subsets of data. We discovered this result while exploring criteria for the minimum number of temperature and salinity measurements to include in the average for each segment. The variability in the models suggests that the sample size may not be large enough to address the effect of resolution in such a heterogeneous ecosystem. Only short-beaked common dolphin had more than 40 sightings in the total data set. A minimum of 40 sightings has been suggested as a conservative estimate of the sample size needed to build a cetacean-habitat model for species in heterogeneous ecosystems (Becker 2007). We lost a large number of sightings due to the constraints imposed by our analytical design. In particular, we had to restrict our analyses to days on which the ship traveled 120 km and days on which complete oceanographic data were collected; we also had to exclude effort that occurred outside the 120 km segment. The best means for increasing the sample size in these analyses is to use the data collected in the CCE during August-December 2005. We did not complete this extension of the analyses as part of the SERDP project because we are using the 2005 data to validate our final models; it would be circular to use the 2005 data to both determine the appropriate resolution for the models and validate the models. Instead, we compared the results of the models built at the 2-km and 10-km resolutions, which used in situ oceanographic data, to the models built at a 5-km resolution using only remotely sensed data. We found that the models built using only the remotely sensed data performed as well as or better than the in situ models. These results increased our confidence in building models at a 5-km resolution and using remotely sensed oceanographic data for the final CCE models. However, we did find that some species showed a strong response to oceanographic variables for which there are no remotely sensed counterpart, such as measures of water column temperature gradients. Consequently, our final models were derived from a comparison of models built at a 5-km resolution using only remotely sensed habitat variables to those built using both remotely sensed and in situ oceanographic variables. 4.3.2 Extent We explored the effect of extent by building models using data from the ETP and CCE separately, and from both ecosystems combined. The combined models incorporate a larger range for many habitat variables (e.g., temperatures are colder in the CCE than the ETP) and a larger sample size for each species. We were interested in determining whether the combined models had increased predictive power. We used the methods derived for the resolution analyses (see Redfern et al. 2008) to explore the effect of extent. Encounter rate models were built at a 60km resolution for two species that occur in both habitats: striped dolphin and short-beaked common dolphin. 57
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U N I R A P E D T T E M D S E N TA
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Table of Contents Acronyms and Abbr
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Figure 18. Encounter rate models bu
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Acknowledgements This project was f
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of these choices as possible and us
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Although our models include most of
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2.0 Background The Navy and other m
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comparison is based on a separate s
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Table A-1 (continued) Blue whale 19
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Figure A-1a. Striped dolphin 108
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