Effects of boats on the surface and acoustic behaviour of an endangered population of bottlenose dolphins

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 221-236

  Guerra, M ^a   Dawson, S M ^a   Brough, T E ^a   Rayment, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Boat noise; Communication; Dolphin watching; Tourism; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOATING; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DOLPHIN; ENDANGERED SPECIES; JUVENILE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; VOCALIZATION;

DOUBTFUL SOUND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

CETACEA; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 84987629900     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00598     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Agresti A (2002) Categorical data analysis, 2nd edn. Wiley, New York, NY
2. Akaike H (1973) Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. In: Csáki F (ed) Proc 2nd Int Symp Information Theory. Akadémiai Kiadó, Buda - pest, p 267-281
3. Altmann J (1974) Observational study of behaviour: sampling methods. Behaviour 49: 227-267
4. Anderson DR (2008) Model based inference in the life sciences: a primer on evidence. Springer, New York, NY
5. Arveson PT, Vendittis DJ (2000) Radiated noise charac - teristics of a modern cargo ship. J Acoust Soc Am 107: 118-129
6. Au WWL (1993) The sonar of dolphins. Springer, New York, NY
7. Au WWL, Floyd RW, Penner RH, Murchison AE (1974) Measurement of echolocation signals of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Montagu, in open waters. J Acoust Soc Am 56: 1280-1290
8. Au WWL, Carder DA, Penner RH, Scronce BL (1985) Demonstration of adaptation in beluga whale echo - location signals. J Acoust Soc Am 77: 726-730
9. Barlow J, Rankin S, Dawson S (2008) A guide to constructing hydrophones and hydrophone arrays for monitoring marine mammal vocalization. NOAA Tech Memo NMFS 417, February 2008
10. Bejder L, Samuels A, Whitehead H, Gales N and others (2006) Decline in relative abundance of bottlenose dolphins exposed to long-term disturbance. Conserv Biol 20: 1791-1798
11. Brumm H (2004) The impact of environmental noise on song amplitude in a territorial bird. J Anim Ecol 73: 434-440
12. Brumm H, Todt D (2002) Noise-dependent song amplitude regulation in a territorial songbird. Anim Behav 63: 891-897
13. Buckstaff KC (2004) Effects of watercraft noise on the acoustic behavior of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Mar Mamm Sci 20: 709-725
14. Burnham KP, Anderson DR (2002) Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. Springer, New York, NY
15. Burnham KP, Anderson DR, Huyvaert KP (2011) AIC model selection and multimodel inference in behavioural ecology: some background, observations and comparisons. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 65: 23-35
16. Caldwell MC, Caldwell DK, Tyack PL (1990) Review of the signature whistle hypothesis for the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. In: Leatherwood S, Reeves RR (eds) The bottlenose dolphin. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, p 199-234
17. Christiansen F, Lusseau D, Stensland E, Berggren P (2010) Effects of tourist boats on the behaviour of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins off the south coast of Zanzibar. Endang Species Res 11: 91-99
18. Currey RJC, Dawson SM, Slooten E (2007) New abundance estimates suggest Doubtful Sound bottlenose dolphins are declining. Pac Conserv Biol 13: 265-273
19. Currey R, Dawson SM, Slooten E, Schneider K and others (2009a) Survival rates for a declining population of bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand: an information theoretic approach to assessing the role of human impacts. Aquat Conserv 19: 658-670
20. Currey RJC, Dawson SM, Slooten E (2009b) An approach for regional threat assessment under IUCN Red List criteria that is robust to uncertainty: the Fiordland bottlenose dolphins are critically endangered. Biol Conserv 142: 1570-1579
21. Foote AD, Osborne RW, Hoelzel AR (2004) Whale-call response to masking boat noise. Nature 428: 910
22. Garamszegi LZ (2011) Information-theoretic approaches to statistical analysis in behavioural ecology: an introduction. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 65: 1-11
23. Gelman A (2008) Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations. Stat Med 27: 2865-2873
24. Grueber CE, Nagakawa S, Laws RJ, Jamieson IG (2011) Multimodel inference in ecology and evolution: challenges and solutions. J Evol Biol 24: 699-711
25. Henderson SD, Dawson SM, Rayment WJ, Currey RJC (2013) Are the 'resident' dolphins of Doubtful Sound becoming less resident? Endang Species Res 20: 99-107
26. Henderson SD, Dawson SM, Currey RJ, Lusseau D, Schneider K (2014) Reproduction, birth seasonality and calf survival of bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Mar Mamm Sci (in press), doi: 10.1111/ mms. 12109
27. Hernandez EN, Solangi M, Kuczaj SA II (2010) Time and frequency parameters of bottlenose dolphin whistles as predictors of surface behaviour in the Mississippi Sound. J Acoust Soc Am 127: 3232-3238
28. Herzing DL (1996) Vocalizations and associated underwater behavior of free-ranging Atlantic spotted dolphins, Ste - nella frontalis, and bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus. Aquat Mamm 22: 61-79
29. Higham JES, Lück M (2007) In search of scientific ap proa - ches to sustainability. In: Higham J, Lück L (eds) Marine wildlife and tourism management: insights from the natural and social sciences. CABI, Wallingford, p 1-16
30. Janik VM, Slater PJ (1998) Context-specific use suggests that bottlenose dolphin signature whistles are cohesion calls. Anim Behav 56: 829-838
31. Jensen FH, Bejder L, Wahlberg J, Aguilar-Soto N, Johnson M, Madsen PT (2009) Vessel noise effects on delphinid communication. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 395: 161-175
32. Johnson JB, Omland KS (2004) Model selection in ecology and evolution. Trends Ecol Evol 19: 101-108
33. La Manna G, Manghi M, Pavan G, Lo Mascolo F, Sarà G (2013) Behavioural strategy of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in response to different kinds of boats in the water of Lampedusa Island (Italy). Aquat Conserv 23: 745-757
34. Lemon M, Lynch TP, Cato DH, Harcourt RG (2006) Response of travelling bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) to experimental approaches by a powerboat in Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Biol Conserv 127: 363-372
35. Lesage V, Barrette C, Kingsley MCS, Sjare B (1999) The effect of vessel noise on the vocal behaviour of belugas in the St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. Mar Mamm Sci 15: 65-84
36. Lundquist D, Gemmell NJ, Würsig B (2012) Behavioural responses of dusky dolphin groups (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) to tour vessels off Kaikoura, New Zealand. PLoS ONE 7: e41969
37. Lusseau D (2003a) Effects of tour boats on the behaviour of bottlenose dolphins: using Markov chains to model anthropogenic impacts. Conserv Biol 17: 1785-1793
38. Lusseau D (2003b) Male and female bottlenose dolphins Tursiops spp. have different strategies to avoid inter - actions with tour boats in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 257: 267-274
39. Lusseau D (2005) Residency pattern of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops spp. in Milford Sound, New Zealand, is related to boat traffic. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 295: 265-272
40. Lusseau D (2006) The short-term behavioural reactions of bottlenose dolphins to interactions with boats in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Mar Mamm Sci 22: 802-818
41. McCulloch CE, Searle SH, Neuhaus JM (2008) Generalized, linear and mixed models, 2nd edn. Wiley, New York, NY
42. Miller LJ, Solangi M, Kuczaj SA II (2008) Immediate res - ponse of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to high-speed personal watercraft in the Mississippi Sound. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 88: 1139-1143
43. Morrison ML, Block WM, Strickland MD, Kendall WL (2001) Wildlife study design. Springer, New York, NY
44. Nakagawa S, Freckleton RP (2011) Model averaging, missing data and multiple imputation: a case study for behavioural ecology. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 65: 103-116
45. Nowacek SM, Wells RS, Solow AR (2001) Short-term effects of boat traffic on bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Mar Mamm Sci 17: 673-688
46. Parks SE, Clark CW, Tyack P (2007) Short- and long-term changes in right whale calling behavior: the potential effects of noise on acoustic communication. J Acoust Soc Am 122: 3725-3731
47. R Core Team (2012) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna. www.R-project.org/
48. Richards SA, Whittingham MJ, Stephens PA (2011) Model selection and model averaging in behavioural ecology: the utility of the IT-AIC framework. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 65: 77-89
49. Richardson WJ, Malme CI (1995) Zones of noise influence. In: Richardson WJ, Greene Jr CR, Malme CI, Thomson DH (eds) Marine mammals and noise. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, p 325-386
50. Richter C, Dawson S, Slooten E (2006) Impacts of commercial whale watching on male sperm whales at Kaikoura, New Zealand. Mar Mamm Sci 22: 46-63
51. Scarpaci C, Bigger SW, Corkeron PJ, Nugegoda D (2000) Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) increase whist - ling in the presence of 'swim-with-dolphin' tour operations. J Cetacean Res Manag 2: 183-185
52. Schaffar A, Madon B, Garrigue C, Constantine R (2013) Behavioural effects of whale-watching activities on an Endangered population of humpback whales wintering in New Caledonia. Endang Species Res 19: 245-254
53. Scheifele PM, Andrew S, Cooper RA, Darre M, Musiek FE, Max L (2005) Indication of a Lombard vocal response in the St. Lawrence River beluga. J Acoust Soc Am 117: 1486-1492
54. Schneider K (1999) Behaviour and ecology of bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, Fiordland, New Zealand. PhD dissertation, University of Otago, Dunedin
55. Schneider K, Baird RW, Dawson S, Visser I, Childerhouse S (1998) Reactions of bottlenose dolphins to tagging attempts using a remotely-deployed suction-cup tag. Mar Mamm Sci 14: 316-324
56. Seddon PJ, Ellenberg U (2007) Effects of human disturbance on penguins: the need for site- and species-specific visitor management guidelines. In: Higham J, Lück L (eds) Marine wildlife and tourism management: insights from the natural and social sciences. CABI, Wallingford, p 163-181
57. Slabbekoorn H, Peet M (2003) Ecology: birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise. Nature 424: 267
58. Smolker RA, Mann J, Smuts BB (1993) Use of signature whistles during separations and reunions by wild bottlenose dolphin mothers and infants. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 33: 393-402
59. Stamation KA, Croft DB, Shaughnessy PD, Waples KA, Briggs SV (2010) Behavioural responses of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) to whale-watching vessels on the southeastern coast of Australia. Mar Mamm Sci 26: 98-122
60. Steckenreuter A, Möller L, Harcourt R (2012) How does Australia's largest dolphin-watching industry affect the behaviour of a small and resident population of Indo- Pacific bottlenose dolphins? J Environ Manage 97: 14-21
61. Stensland E, Berggren P (2007) Behavioural changes in female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in response to boat-based tourism. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 332: 225-234
62. Symonds RE, Moussalli A (2011) A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike's information criterion. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 65: 13-21
63. Timmel G, Courbis S, Sargeant-Green H, Markowtiz H (2008) Effects of human traffic on the movement patterns of Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) in Kealakekula Bay, Hawaii. Aquat Mamm 34: 402-411
64. Tyack PL, Clark CW (2000) Communication and acoustic behaviour of dolphins and whales. In: Au WWL, Popper AN, Fay RR (eds) Hearing by whales and dolphins. Springer, New York, NY, p 156-224
65. Van Parijs SM, Corkeron PJ (2001a) Boat traffic affects the acoustic behaviour of Pacific humpback dolphins, Sousa chinensis. J Mar Biol Assoc UK 81: 533-538
66. Van Parijs SM, Corkeron PJ (2001b) Vocalizations and behaviour of Pacific humpback dolphins, Sousa chinensis. Ethology 107: 701-716
67. Wells RS, Scott MD (1999) Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821). In: Ridgway SH, Harrison R (eds) Handbook of marine mammals, Vol 6. The second book of dolphins and porpoises. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, p 137-182
68. Williams R, Trites AW, Bain DE (2002) Behavioural res - ponses of killer whales (Orcinus orca) to whale-watching boats: opportunistic observations and experimental approaches. J Zool (Lond) 256: 255-270
69. Williams R, Lusseau D, Hammond PS (2006) Estimating relative energetic costs of human disturbance to killer whales (Orcinus orca). Biol Conserv 133: 301-311