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Underwater noise levels of pile-driving in a New Zealand harbour, and the potential impacts on endangered Hector's dolphins

2018
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Leunissen, E. M. and Dawson, S. M.

Impact pile-driving generates loud underwater anthropogenic sounds, and is routinely conducted in harbours around the world. Surprisingly few studies of these sounds and their propagation are...
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Keywords: Harbour, Hector's dolphin, Monitoring, Piling

Dredging displaces bottlenose dolphins from an urbanised foraging patch.

2014
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Pirotta, E., Laesser, B. E., Hardaker, A., Riddoch, N., Marcoux, M., and Lusseau, D.

The exponential growth of the human population and its increasing industrial development often involve large scale modifications of the environment. In the marine context, coastal urbanisation...
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Keywords: Construction, Displacement, Dredging, Harbour