Responses of harbour porpoises to pile driving at the Horns Rev II offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 421, Issue , 2011, Pages 205-216

  Brandt, Miriam J ^a   Diederichs, Ansgar ^a   Betke, Klaus ^a   Nehls, Georg ^a,b  

^a Institut für technische und angewandte Physik GmbH ^*  (Germany)

^b Institut für Technische und Angewandte Physik GmbH Itap   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic activity; Behaviour; Marine mammals; Monitoring Acousticm; Offshore windfarm; Oise Construction; Phocoena phocoena; Porpoise detectors

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOACOUSTICS; BIOMONITORING; NOISE POLLUTION; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; PILE DRIVING; PORPOISE; SEAFLOOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND FARM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK; HORNS REV; NORTH SEA;

MAMMALIA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 78751653180     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08888     Document Type: Article

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