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Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management.

2013
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Biological Conservation

Hammond, P.S., Macleod, K., Berggren, P., Borchers, D.L., Burt, M.L., Cañadas, A., Desportes, G., Donovan, G.P., Gilles, A., Gillespie, D., Gordon, J., Hiby, L., Kuklik, I., Leaper, R., Lehnert, K., Leopold, M., Lovell, P., Øien, N., Paxton, C.G.M., Ridoux, V., Rogan, E., Samarra, F., Scheidat, M., Sequeira, M., Siebert, U., Skov, H., Swift, R., Tasker, M.L., Teilmann, J., Van Canneyt, O. & Vázquez, J.A.

The European Union (EU) Habitats Directive requires Member States to monitor and maintain at favourable conservation status those species identified to be in need of protection,...
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Keywords: Cetacean, Conservation, European Atlantic Shelf, Management

Ecological effects of dumping of dredged sediments; options for management.

1999
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of Coastal Conservation

Essink, K.

Dredging and dumping of dredged sediments in estuarine and coastal waters may lead to increased turbidity and enhanced sediment deposition at dump sites. This mainly affects...
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Keywords: Dredging, Ecology, Management

Causes and consequences of intraspecific variation in animal responses to anthropogenic noise.

2019
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Behavioural Ecology

Harry R. Harding, Timothy A. C. Gordon, Emma Eastcott, Stephen D. Simpson, and Andrew N. Radford

Anthropogenic noise is a recognized global pollutant, affecting a wide range of nonhuman animals. However, most research considers only whether noise pollution has an impact, ignoring...
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Keywords: Biological responses, Environmental stressors, Experiments, Management, Mitigation, Noise pollutio

Assessing auditory masking for management of underwater anthropogenic noise

2020
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Pine, M. K., Nikolich, K., Martin, B., Morris, C. and Juanes, F.

Masking is often assessed by quantifying changes, due to increasing noise, to an animal’s communication or listening range. While the methods used to measure communication or...
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Keywords: Cod, Communication range, Listening range, Management