NESP MaC Project 3.15 - Informing southern right whale management through continued monitoring, determination of aggregation areas and development of approaches to increase data flow efficiencies and utility

本记录概述了《2023年国家海洋和沿海中心研究计划》项目“通过持续监测、确定聚集区和发展提高数据流效率和效用的方法，为南露脊鲸的管理提供信息”。有关此项目的特定数据输出，请参阅与此元数据关联的子记录。<br/> <br/> 该项目将提供关于南方露脊鲸的优先信息，以通过以下方式解决关键的知识差距：(1)通过对西部种群的航空调查和测试改善照片识别数据流动效率的平台，更新长期种群数量趋势；(2)收集和利用西部种群的照片，以确定具有生物重要性的繁殖区，并为种群参数的估计提供信息；(3)开发综合方法，将机会性观察和更正式收集的观察结合起来，扩大数据集的使用；(4)收集活动和遗传数据，以评估东部和西部亚种群边界的鲸鱼的连通性和种群特征。它还将开展协商进程，确定今后工作的优先次序，以便为今后的国家环境战略计划工作提供信息。<br/> <br/> 产出<br/> ·更新的南露脊鲸种群评估[数据集]<br/> ·聚集区的鲸鱼照片识别[图像目录]<br/> ·更新了Sprat和BIA发行版[数据集]<br/> ·鲸鱼移动跟踪[数据集]<br/> ·遗传数据(用于估计种群连通性)[数据集]<br/> ·最终项目报告[书面]

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Research Plan 2023 project "Informing southern right whale management through continued monitoring, determination of aggregation areas and development of approaches to increase data flow efficiencies and utility". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.<br /> --------------------<br /> <br /> This project will deliver priority information on southern right whales to address key knowledge gaps through: (i) updating long-term population abundance trends via aerial surveys of the western population and testing of platforms for improving photo-identification data flow efficiencies; (ii) the collection and utilisation of photos of the western population to identify biologically important reproductive areas and inform the estimation of population parameters;(iii) development of integrative methods for combining opportunistic and more formally collected observations, to expand the utility of datasets and (iv) collection of movement and genetic data to assess the connectivity and population identity of whales at the boundary of the eastern and western subpopulations. It will also conduct a consultative process for prioritising future work for informing future NESP work.<br /> <br /> Outputs<br /> • Updated southern right whale population assessments [dataset]<br /> • Individual whale photo-identifications in aggregation areas [image catalogue]<br /> • Updated SPRAT and BIA distributions [dataset]<br /> • Whale movement tracking [dataset]<br /> • Genetic data (for estimates of population connectivity) [dataset]<br /> • Final project report [written]