Startle response of captive North Sea fish species to underwater tones between 0.1 and 64 kHz

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 369-377

  Kastelein, Ronald A ^a   Heul, Sander van der ^a   Verboom, Willem C ^b   Jennings, Nancy ^c   Veen, Jan van der ^d   Haan, Dick de ^e  

^a Sea Mammal Research Company SEAMARCO   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c Dotmoth   (United Kingdom)

^d Sea aquarium Het Arsenaal   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Atlantic cod; Atlantic herring; Behaviour; Common eel; Horse mackerel; Marine fish; Pollack; Pout; Sea bass; Thicklip mullet

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FISH; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SEAWATER; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATLANTIC COD; ATLANTIC HERRING; COMMON EEL; HORSE MACKEREL; MARINE FISH; SEA BASS; THICKLIP MULLET;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; SOUND VELOCITY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; ATLANTIC HERRING; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EEL; FISH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; STARTLE REFLEX; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; FISHES; HEARING; NOISE; NORTH SEA; SEAWATER; SOUND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION; SWIMMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; EQUIDAE; GADUS MORHUA; POLLACHIUS POLLACHIUS; SERRANIDAE;

EID: 41249092056     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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