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Table 2 Summary of recording sites, geographic locations, depth, available recording days, duty cycle (recording period/time period), sample rate and recorder type

From: Seasonal migrations of North Atlantic minke whales: novel insights from large-scale passive acoustic monitoring networks

Site

Location

Depth (m)

Recording period (n days)

Duty cycle (min)

Sample rate (kHz)

Recorder type

Davis Strait (A)

67.24/-58.8

350

10/23/06–10/05/07 (348)

Cont.

2

HARU 1

SW Iceland (B)

58.0/-26.0

800

05/16/07–07/25/08 (437)

Cont.

2

HARU1

Gulf of St. Lawrence (1)

50.25/-64.22

25

06/23/10–09/13/10 (83)

Cont.

2

MARU2

Roseway Basin (2)

42.97/-65.06

145

07/02/04–08/17/05 (412)

Cont.

2

HARU1

Emerald Basin (3)

43.34/-63.16

153

07/02/04–10/13/05 (469)

Cont.

2

HARU1

Stellwagen Bank (4)

42.45/-70.31

71

12/18/08–03/19/10 (457)

Cont.

2

MARU2

New York (5)

40.05/-71.82

90

02/29–05/15/08; 08/29–03/05/09 (266)

Cont.

2

MARU2

Azores (C)

38.54/-29.04

190

04/10–09/17/10; 09/29/10–5/19/11(424)

1.5/30

50

EAR 3

Cape Espartel East (D)

35.87/-6.20

340

10/28/08–01/30/09 (95)

5/10

2

EAR 3

Strait of Gibraltar West (E)

36.03/-5.42

100

10/28/08–01/30/09 (95)

5/10

2

EAR 3

Onslow Bay (6)

33.68/-76.48

335

04/24–08/09/09; 11/08/09–04/20/10 (271)

5/10

200

HARP4

Savannah (F)

31.83/-80.70

17

11/18/09–03/16/10 (119)

Cont.

2

MARU 2

Jacksonville 1 (7)

30.27/-80.06

91

02/22–07/30/10; 08/26/10–01/25/11 (312)

5/10

200

HARP4

Jacksonville 2 (8)

30.28/-80.06

305

09/13–10/08/09; 12/03/09–01/07/10 (62)

Cont.

2

MARU2

Jacksonville 3 (9)

30.34/-81.21

17

11/19/09–06/04/10 (197)

Cont.

2

MARU2

Saba Bank (10)

17.51/-63.19

30

10/27/11–04/28/12 (185)

30/120

16

MARU2

  1. Sites at which no minke whale pulse train detections were made are in italics. See the following references for details about recorder electronics and sensitivities: (1) HARU phones: [90]; (2) Marine Autonomous Recording Unit (MARU): [91]; (3) Ecological Acoustic Recorder (EAR): [92]; (4) High-frequency Acoustic Recording Package (HARP) [93].