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Providing ecological context to anthropogenic subsea noise: Assessing listening space reductions of marine mammals from tidal energy devices

2019
Pay-walled Article

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Pine, Matthew K., Schmitt Pál, Culloch Ross M., Lieber Lilian, and Kregting Louise T.

The deployment of tidal energy arrays is gaining momentum to provide marine renewable energy (MRE) to the global market. However, there are concerns over the potential...
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Keywords: Acoustics, Harbour porpoise, Harbour seal, Hydrokinetics, Masking, Renewable energy

Signal-specific amplitude adjustment to noise in common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

2019
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Journal of Experimental Biology

Kragh, I. M., McHugh, K., Wells, R. S., Sayigh, L. S., Janik, V. M., Tyack, P. L. and Jensen, F. H.

Anthropogenic underwater noise has increased over the past century, raising concern about the impact on cetaceans that rely on sound for communication, navigation and locating prey...
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Keywords: Anthropogenic noise, Cetacean, Communication, Lombard response, Masking, Signature whistle

Communication masking in marine mammals: A review and research strategy

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Erbe, C., Reichmuth, C., Cunningham, K., Lucke, K. et al.

Underwater noise, whether of natural or anthropogenic origin, has the ability to interfere with the way in which marine mammals receive acoustic signals (i.e., for communication,...
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Keywords: Audiogram, Comodulation masking release, Critical band, Critical ratio, Marine mammal, Masking

Acoustic communication in a noisy world: Can fish compete with anthropogenic noise?

2014
Open Access Journal Article

Behavioural Ecology

Radford, Andrew N., Kerridge Emma, and Simpson Stephen D.

Anthropogenic (man-made) noise has changed the acoustic environment both on land and underwater and is now recognized as a pollutant of international concern. Increasing numbers of...
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Keywords: Acoustic signalling, Adaptation, Anthropogenic noise, Behavioural plasticity, Fitness benefits, Hearing, Masking, Pollution

The effects of vessel noise on the communication network of humpback whales

2019
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Royal Society Open Science

Dunlop, R. A.

Humpback whales rely on acoustic communication to mediate social interactions. The distance to which these social signals propagate from the signaller defines its communication space, and...
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Keywords: Acoustic communication, Active space, Anthropogenic noise, Humpback whale, Masking