Seal scarers as a tool to deter harbour porpoises from offshore construction sites

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 475, Issue , 2013, Pages 291-302

  Brandt, Miriam J ^a   Höschle, Caroline ^a   Diederichs, Ansgar ^a   Betke, Klaus ^b   Matuschek, Rainer ^b   Nehls, Georg ^a  

^a BioConsult SH ^*  (Germany)

^b Institute for Technical and Applied Physics (ITAP) GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Deterrence; Marine mammal; Offshore windfarm; Phocoena phocoena; Pile driving

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; NOISE POLLUTION; PILE DRIVING; PINNIPED; SITE PREPARATION; WATER COLUMN; WIND FARM;

EID: 84874071107     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10100     Document Type: Article

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