Beam trawling causes physical disruption of the seabed through contact of the gear components with the sediment and the resuspension of sediment into the water column...
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Standard audiometric data are often applied to predict how noise influences hearing. With regard to auditory masking, critical ratios—obtained using tonal signals and flat-spectrum maskers—can be...
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Marine animals use sound extensively in an environment where vision is usually very limited and sound travels to much larger distances than it does in air....
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Human-generated noise over the last 60 years has increased concerns regarding the implications for marine species. Many species have been documented to display behavioral and physiological...
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This volume is a review of literature concerning the effects of man-made noise on marine mammals....
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Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory - Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Literature on the effects of underwater sound on marine fish and mammals is reviewed. Characteristics of hearing are discussed, as are published accounts on the effects...
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Ocean noise pollution is of special concern for cetaceans, as they are highly dependent on sound as their principal sense. Sound travels very efficiently underwater, so...
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Both natural and human-generated sounds fill the marine environment. Biological processes generate natural sound such as wind, rain, and waves. Humans intentionally produce sound when using...
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International Journal of the Society for Underwater Technology
There is little information about the effects of sound on marine life. In spite of this high uncertainty, several new legal limits to sound levels in...
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