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Assessing underwater noise levels during pile-driving at an offshore wind farm and its potential effects on marine mammals

2010
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Bailey, H., Senior, B., Simmons, D., Rusin, J., Picken, G. and Thompson, P. M

Marine renewable developments have raised concerns over impacts of underwater noise on marine species, particularly from pile-driving for wind turbines. Environmental assessments typically use generic sound...
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Keywords: Ambient noise, Bottlenose dolphins, Marine mammals, Marine protected area, Noise impacts, Piling, Renewable energy, Wind farm

Distracted decision makers: ship noise and predation risk change shell choice in hermit crabs

2019
Pay-walled Article

Behavioural Ecology

Tidau, Svenja, and Briffa Mark

Human-induced rapid environmental change such as noise pollution alters the ability of animals to integrate information cues. Many studies focus on how noise impacts single sensory...
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Keywords: Hermit crabs, Noise impacts, Noise pollution, Predator cue, Shell size, Ship

Multiple field-based methods to assess the potential impacts of seismic surveys on scallops

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Przeslawski, R., Huang, Z., Anderson, J., Carroll, A. G., Edmunds, M., Hurt, L. and Williams, S.

Marine seismic surveys are an important tool to map geology beneath the seafloor and manage petroleum resources, but they are also a source of underwater noise...
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Keywords: Bivalve, Gippsland Basin, Invertebrate, Noise impacts, Remote sensing