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Answering the key stakeholder questions about the impact of offshore wind farms on marine life using hypothesis testing to inform targeted monitoring

2024
Open Access Peer Reviewed Research Article

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Cresci, A.,Degraer, S., Zhang, G., Dannheim, J., Browman, H.I.

Hypothesis testing framework proposed to answer key Offshore stakeholder questions regarding conservation near proposed sites....
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Keywords: Hypothesis testing., Impact assessment, Offshore wind, Spatial Planning

Marine mammals and sonar: Dose-response studies, the risk-disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context.

2018
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of Applied Ecology

Harris, C.M., L. Thomas, E.A. Falcone, J. Hildebrand, D. Houser, P.H. Kvadsheim, F.P.A. Lam, P.J.O. Miller, D.J. Moretti, A.J. Read, H. Slabbekoorn, B.L. Southall, P.L. Tyack, D. Wartzok, and V.M. Janik.

Marine mammals may be negatively affected by anthropogenic noise. Behavioural response studies (BRS) aim to establish a relationship between noise exposure conditions (dose) from a potential...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic noise, Anti-predator response, Behavioural response, Cetaceans, Dose-response, Human disturbance, Impact assessment, Marine mammals, Sonar

Harbour porpoise movement strategy affects cumulative number of animals acoustically exposed to underwater explosions

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Aarts, G., von Benda-Beckmann, A. M., Lucke, K., Sertlek, H. Ö., van Bemmelen, R., Geelhoed, S. C. V., Brasseur, S., Scheidat, M., Lam, F.-P., Slabbekoorn, H. and Kirkwood, R.

Anthropogenic sound in the marine environment can have negative consequences for marine fauna. Since most sound sources are intermittent or continuous, estimating how many individuals are...
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Keywords: Acoustics, Anthropogenic sound, Cumulative effects, Impact assessment, Individual-based model, Marine mammals, Population consequences of disturbance, Species distribution