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Determining the behavioural dose-responsive relationship of marine mammals to air gun noise and source proximity

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of Experimental Biology

Dunlop, R., Noad, M., McCauley, R., Scott-Hayward, L. et al.

The effect of various anthropogenic sources of noise (e.g. sonar, seismic surveys) on the behaviour of marine mammals is sometimes quantified as a dose–response relationship, where...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic noise, BRAHSS, Dose, Humpback

Assessing the exposure of animals to acoustic disturbance: Towards an understanding of the population consequences of disturbance

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Daniel P. Costa, Luis A. Hückstädt, Lisa K. Schwarz, Ari S. Friedlaender, Bruce R. Mate, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Amy Kennedy, and Nicolas J. Gales

An essential component of risk assessment is identification whether individuals will be exposed to a risk. This requires information on the proportion of the population exposed,...
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Keywords: Acoustic disturbance, Blue whales, Humpback, Populations, Sensitivity exposure