The use of an air bubble curtain to reduce the received sound levels for harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3406-3412

  Lucke, Klaus ^a   Lepper, Paul A ^b   Blanchet, Marie Anne ^c   Siebert, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Fjord and Bælt ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; CONSTRUCTION WORKS; DENMARK; DIRECT PATHS; DRIVING IMPULSE; HARBOR PORPOISE; MARINE MAMMALS; PEAK-TO-PEAK-; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SOUND ATTENUATION; SOUND EXPOSURE; SOUND LEVEL; STANDARD DEVIATION; WOODEN PILE;

MAMMALS;

PILES;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; AIR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; NOISE; PARTICLE SIZE; PORPOISE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SWIMMING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AIR; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; NOISE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOCOENA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SWIMMING; WATER;

EID: 81355153872     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3626123     Document Type: Article

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