Anthropogenic sound exposure of marine mammals from seaways: Estimates for Lower St. Lawrence Seaway, eastern Canada

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1093-1098

  Simard, Y ^a,b   Lepage, R ^a   Gervaise, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c ENSIETA   (France)

Author keywords

M weighting; Marine mammals; Seaway; Shipping noise; Sound level; Whales

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; SHIPS;

M-WEIGHTING; MARINE MAMMALS; SEAWAY; SOUND LEVEL; WHALES;

MAMMALS;

EID: 78049375383     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.05.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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