Recreational boating traffic: A chronic source of anthropogenic noise in the Wilmington, North Carolina Intracoastal Waterway

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 151-160

  Haviland Howell, Genevieve ^a,b   Frankel, Adam S ^a,c   Powell, Christopher M ^a,d   Bocconcelli, Alessandro ^a,e   Herman, Russell L ^a   Sayigh, Laela S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b Sea Bird Electronics Inc   (United States)

^c Marine Acoustic Inc   (United States)

^d OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; NOISE POLLUTION; OCEAN HABITATS; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

AMBIENT NOISE LEVELS; ANTHROPOGENIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; ENVIRONMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; TRAFFIC; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEARING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHIP; TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE; VOCALIZATION; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEARING; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; NORTH CAROLINA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECREATION; SHIPS; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WIND;

EID: 34547410038     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2717766     Document Type: Article

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