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The effects of marine traffic on the behaviour of Black Sea harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena relicta) within the Istanbul Strait, Turkey.

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

PLOS ONE

Akkaya Bas, A., Christiansen, F., Amaha Öztürk, A., Öztürk, B. and McIntosh, C.

Marine traffic is threatening cetaceans on a local and global scale. The Istanbul Strait is one of the busiest waterways, with up to 2,500 vessels present...
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Keywords: Black Sea, Istanbul, Marine traffic, Porpoises, Turkey

Reciprocal modelling between the underwater ambient noise and the coastal maritime traffic density in the Calvi bay

2019
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Magnier, C. and Gervaise, C.

Maritime traffic is the main contributor to anthropogenic underwater noise; its increase changes the acoustic landscape. To follow these evolutions, maps of ambient noise are created...
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Marine traffic

Underwater noise recognition of marine vessels passages: two case studies using hidden Markov models

2019
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Vieira, M., Amorim, M. C., Sundelöf, A., Prista, N. and Fonseca, P. J.

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is emerging as a cost-effective non-intrusive method to monitor the health and biodiversity of marine habitats, including the impacts of anthropogenic noise...
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Keywords: Marine traffic, Passive acoustic monitoring