Threshold for onset of injury in chinook salmon from exposure to impulsive pile driving sounds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Halvorsen, Michele B ^a,b   Casper, Brandon M ^b   Woodley, Christa M ^a   Carlson, Thomas J ^a   Popper, Arthur N ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BAROTRAUMA; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEMATOMA; JUVENILE ANIMAL; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PROCESS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE WEIGHTED INDEX; SOUND INTENSITY; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEMATOMA; HEMORRHAGE; NOISE; SALMON;

EID: 84862645198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038968     Document Type: Article

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