An Analysis of Potential Low Frequency Vocalizations of Southern African Bryde's Whales.

This is the dataset used in the study entitled "An Analysis of Potential Low Frequency Vocalizations of Southern African Bryde's Whales" by Faustmann and Versfeld. The Bryde's whale is considered a data deficient species and few papers exist to date that focus on Bryde's whale vocalisations. Large quantities of data are required to better understand and to conserve this species. Methods such as tagging individuals with recording devices are not well suited to this application, passive acoustic monitoring is far more practical. This data comprises recordings taken by a single element hydrophone in False Bay at a depth of 20 to 30 meters. Each recording was taken at approximately the same location: S 34.16813°, E 18.75718°. Each folder in this directory is named according to the start date of the recording contained. The recordings are approximately 72 hours in duration. Detection tables are provided for the recordings of April 2023, which have been generated by and may be imported into Raven Pro. The detection tables indicate the positions in the data of possible Bryde's whale vocalisations. The recordings contain sounds from many other marine animals such as Humpback whales. Please feel free to make use of this dataset but cite it appropriately along with the corresponding study, should the data be used for a publication.

本数据集系Faustmann与Versfeld所著研究论文《对南非布氏鲸潜在低频发声的分析》中所使用。布氏鲸被视为数据不足的物种，迄今为止，针对布氏鲸发声的研究论文寥寥无几。为了更好地理解和保护这一物种，亟需大量数据。诸如为个体贴上记录设备等方法并不适用于此类应用，被动声学监测则显得更为实用。本数据集包含在False Bay海域20至30米深度处，由单元素水听器所采集的录音。每一次录音均在约相同的位置进行：南纬34.16813度，东经18.75718度。本目录中的每个文件夹均以所含录音的起始日期命名。录音时长约为72小时。此外，为2023年4月的录音提供了检测表，这些检测表由Raven Pro生成，并可导入。检测表显示了数据中可能存在的布氏鲸发声的位置。录音中还包含了来自其他海洋生物如座头鲸等多种声音。请自由使用此数据集，若数据被用于出版物，请适当引用相关研究和数据来源。