Dose-response relationships of harlequin duck behaviour to noise from low-level military jet over-flights in central Labrador

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 289-298

  Goudie, R Ian ^a   Jones, Ian L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Before after control impact; Behavioural response; Dose response; Jet aircraft noise; Residual effects; Time activity budgets

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; JET AIRCRAFT;

BEFOR-AFTER-CONTROL IMPACT (BACI); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; HARLEQUIN DUCKS; WILDLIFE;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

AIRCRAFT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; MILITARY LAND; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NOISE POLLUTION;

AGGRESSION; AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DUCK; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; HISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS;

EID: 18544367188     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892904001651     Document Type: Article

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