The use of an unoccupied aerial vehicle to survey shark species over sand and rocky-reef habitats in a marine protected area.

UAV aerial survey drone elasmobranch monitoring

Journal

Journal of fish biology
ISSN: 1095-8649
Titre abrégé: J Fish Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0214055

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Historique:
revised: 15 06 2021
received: 13 03 2021
accepted: 24 06 2021
pubmed: 29 6 2021
medline: 20 11 2021
entrez: 28 6 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Cabo Pulmo National Park was established in 1995 and has since seen a large increase in fish biomass. An unoccupied aerial vehicle (UAV) was used to survey shallow coastal habitat in which lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris), bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) and Pacific nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma unami) were recorded. Sharks were more common in the afternoon, potentially using warmer shallow areas to behaviourally thermoregulate. This study highlights UAV surveying to be a viable tool for species identification, a limitation of previous terrestrial surveys conducted in the area.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34180053
doi: 10.1111/jfb.14838
doi:

Substances chimiques

Sand 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1735-1740

Subventions

Organisme : This study was funded by Pelagios Kakunjá with grants from the Paul Angell Foundation, International Community Foundation, Alianza-Fundación Carlos Slim, Ocean Blue Tree and the National Geographic Society. Student scholarship funding was provided by CONACYT.

Informations de copyright

© 2021 Fisheries Society of the British Isles.

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Auteurs

Kathryn A Ayres (KA)

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Mexico.
Pelagios Kakunjá A.C., La Paz, Mexico.

James T Ketchum (JT)

Pelagios Kakunjá A.C., La Paz, Mexico.
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR), La Paz, Mexico.
MigraMa, Olema, California, USA.

Rogelio González-Armas (R)

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Mexico.

Felipe Galván-Magaña (F)

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Mexico.

Alex Hearn (A)

MigraMa, Olema, California, USA.
Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Diego de Robles y Vía Interoceánica, Quito, Ecuador.

Fernando R Elorriaga-Verplancken (FR)

Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Mexico.

Edgar M Hoyos-Padilla (EM)

Pelagios Kakunjá A.C., La Paz, Mexico.
MigraMa, Olema, California, USA.
Fins Attached: Marine Research and Conservation, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

Stephen M Kajiura (SM)

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

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