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Directional hydrophone clusters reveal evasive responses of small cetaceans to disturbance during construction at offshore windfarms

2023
Open Access Peer Reviewed Research Article

Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biology Letters

Graham, I. M., Gillespie, D., Gkikopoulou, K. C., Hastie, G. D. and Thompson, P.M.

Testing of hypothesis that harbour porpoises respond to acoustic mitigation devices at an offshore windfarm by moving away. During baseline periods, porpoise movements were evenly distributed...
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Keywords: Acoustic deterrent device, Evasive response, Mitigation measures, Offshore windfarm, Passive acoustic monitoring, Phonotaxis