Acoustic playback experiments to study behavioral responses of free-ranging marine animals to anthropogenic sound

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 395, Issue , 2009, Pages 187-200

  Tyack, Peter ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Effects of sound; Marine mammals; Playback experiments

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOACOUSTICS; DEEP WATER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SEISMIC SURVEY; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE; ZIPHIIDAE; ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS;

EID: 73449145646     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08363     Document Type: Article

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