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State-dependent behavioural theory for assessing the fitness consequences of anthropogenic disturbance on capital and income breeders

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

McHuron, E. A., D. P. Costa, L. Schwarz, and M. Mangel.

1. Anthropogenic disturbance is of increasing concern for wildlife populations, necessitating the development of models that link behavioural changes at the individual level with biologically meaningful...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, Behaviour, Fitness consequences

Fine-scale movement responses of free-ranging harbour porpoises to capture, tagging and short-term noise pulses from a single airgun

2018
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Royal Society Open Science

van Beest ,F. M., Teilmann, J., Hermannsen, L., Galatius, A., Mikkelsen, L., Sveegaard, S., Balle Jeppe, D., Dietz, R. and Nabe-Nielsen, J.

Knowledge about the impact of anthropogenic disturbances on the behavioural responses of cetaceans is constrained by lack of data on fine-scale movements of individuals. We equipped...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, Cetaceans, Movement, Offshore energy, Phocoena phocoena, Underwater noise

Response to “Resilience of harbor porpoises to anthropogenic disturbance: Must they really feed continuously?”

2018
Pay-walled Journal Article

Marine Mammal science

Wisniewska, D.M., Johnson, M., Teilmann, J., Rojano-Doñate, L., Shearer, J., Sveegaard, S., Miller, L.A., Siebert, U. and Madsen, P.T.

Response to a paper....
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Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, Harbour porpoise

Ultra-high foraging rates of harbor porpoises make them vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbance.

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Current Biology

Wisniewska, D.M., Johnson, M., Teilmann, J., Rojano-Doñate, L., Shearer, J., Sveegaard, S., Miller, L.A., Siebert, U. and Madsen, P.T.

The question of how individuals acquire and allocate resources to maximize fitness is central in evolutionary ecology. Basic information on prey selection, search effort, and capture...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, Foraging rates, Harbour Porpoises

The effect of close approached for tagging activities by small research vessels on the behavior of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

2016
Pay-walled/Intertek link Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Mammal Science

Williamson, M., Kavanagh, A. and Noad, N.

Small research vessels are often used as platforms for tagging activities to collect behavioral data on cetaceans and they have the potential to disturb that group...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, Behavior, BRAHSS, Cetacean, Humpback whales, Vessel

Marine mammals and the impacts of anthropogenic noise: Considerations for the design of large acoustic behavioral response studies such as BRAHSS

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of Acoustics

Noad, M. and Dunlop, R

Sound travels with greater efficiency in water than does light, which is quickly absorbed and scattered. As a consequence, a wide variety of marine taxa use...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, BRAHSS

A dynamic state model of migratory behavior and physiology to assess the consequences of environmental variation and anthropogenic disturbance on marine vertebrates

2018
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

The American Naturalist - E-Article

Pirotta, E., M. Mangel, D. P. Costa, B. Mate, J. Goldbogen, D. M. Palacios, L. A. Huckstadt, E. A. McHuron, L. Schwarz, and L. New

Integrating behavior and physiology is critical to formulating new hypotheses on the evolution of animal life-history strategies. Migratory capital breeders acquire most of the energy they...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic disturbance, Marine vertebrate, Migratory behaviour, State model

Variation in harbour porpoise activity in response to seismic survey noise

2014
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Biology Letters

Pirotta E., Brookes, K. L., Graham, I. M. and Thompson, P. M.

Animals exposed to anthropogenic disturbance make trade-offs between perceived risk and the cost of leaving disturbed areas. Impact assessments tend to focus on overt behavioural responses...
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Keywords: Activity budget, Anthropogenic disturbance, Environmental impact assessment, Foraging efficiency