The deployment of tidal energy arrays is gaining momentum to provide marine renewable energy (MRE) to the global market. However, there are concerns over the potential...
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High-amplitude impulsive sounds produced by pile driving and airguns may result in hearing damage in nearby seals. By swimming at the water surface, seals may reduce...
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Safety criteria for underwater sounds from offshore pile driving are needed to protect marine mammals. As a first step toward understanding effects of impulsive sounds, two...
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The underwater hearing sensitivities of two 2-year-old female harbor seals were quantified in a pool built for acoustic research by using a behavioral psycho-acoustic technique. The...
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Two female harbor seals were exposed for 60min to a continuous one-sixth-octave noise band centered at 32kHz at sound pressure levels of 92 to 152dB re...
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Harbor seals may suffer hearing loss due to intense sounds. After exposure for 60-min to a continuous 6.5kHz tone at sound pressure levels of 123–159 dB...
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Temporary hearing threshold shifts (TTSs) were investigated in two adult female harbor seals after exposure for 60min to a continuous one-sixth-octave noise band centered at 16kHz...
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These maps are an update of the previous seal usage maps described in Jones et al. (2015). There are three key updates: (1) The telemetry data...
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A limiting factor of satellite telemetry in the context of habitat use by marine mammals is the low accuracy of the received positions. A novel statistical...
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Offshore wind farm developments may impact protected marine mammal populations, requiring appropriate assessment under the EU Habitats Directive. We describe a framework developed to assess population...
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