Vessel noise affects beaked whale behavior: Results of a dedicated acoustic response study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Pirotta, Enrico ^a   Milor, Rachael ^b   Quick, Nicola ^a   Moretti, David ^c   Di Marzio, Nancy ^c   Tyack, Peter ^d   Boyd, Ian ^a   Hastie, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BAHAMAS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; SHIP; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; TRAFFIC NOISE; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; SOFTWARE; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 84864562108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042535     Document Type: Article

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