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      Neglect of bandwidth of Odontocetes echo location clicks biases propagation loss and single hydrophone population estimates.

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          Passive acoustic monitoring with a single hydrophone has been suggested as a cost-effective method to monitor population density of echolocating marine mammals, by estimating the distance at which the hydrophone is able to intercept the echolocation clicks and distinguish these from the background. To avoid a bias in the estimated population density, this method relies on an unbiased estimate of the detection range and therefore of the propagation loss (PL). When applying this method, it is common practice to estimate PL at the center frequency of a broadband echolocation click and to assume this narrowband PL applies also to the broadband click. For a typical situation this narrowband approximation overestimates PL, underestimates the detection range and consequently overestimates the population density by an amount that for fixed center frequency increases with increasing pulse bandwidth and sonar figure of merit.

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          Journal
          J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
          The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
          Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
          1520-8524
          0001-4966
          Nov 2013
          : 134
          : 5
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, P.O. Box 96864, 2509 JG, The Hague, Netherlands.
          Article
          10.1121/1.4823804
          24180761
          3e526515-7d4b-4801-a09e-c8e61d9c3b0e
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