Estimated tissue and blood N 2 levels and risk of decompression sickness in deep-, intermediate-, and shallow-diving toothed whales during exposure to naval sonar

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 MAY, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kvadsheim, P H ^a   Miller, P J O ^b   Tyack, P L ^b,c   Sivle, L D ^d   Lam, F P A ^e   Fahlman, A ^c,f  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Diving physiology; Gas exchange; Marine mammals; Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866378813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00125     Document Type: Article

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