Quantifying the effect of boat disturbance on bottlenose dolphin foraging activity

Biological Conservation

Volumn 181, Issue , 2015, Pages 82-89

  Pirotta, Enrico ^a   Merchant, Nathan D ^b,c   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Barton, Tim R ^a   Lusseau, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical model; Behavioral response; Feeding buzz; Noise masking; Passive acoustic data; Vessel traffic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAMMAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NATURE CONSERVATION; RISK PERCEPTION;

TURSIOPS;

EID: 84913535789     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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