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Development of the PCAD Model to Assess Biological Significance of Acoustic Disturbance

Open Access Report

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California

Daniel P. Costa, Lisa Schwarz

Assessing the impact of disturbance events on cryptic or far- ranging marine mammal species is critically important to stakeholders who must balance project objectives with the...
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Keywords: Distrubance events, Environmental impacts, Marine mammals, PCAD

A review of literature relevant to the PCAD model for guidance in developing transfer functions

2010
Open Access Report

Final Report

Nowacek, D., Johnston, D., Bejder, L. and McElligott, D.

A comprehensive review of the literature pertaining to the Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance (PCAD) model as it relates to noise as a stressor for mammals,...
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Keywords: PCAD, PTS, Transfer function, TTS

Relating behaviour and life functions to populations level effects in marine mammals: An empirical and modeling effort to develop the PCAD model

2012
Open Access Report

Final Report

University of California, Santa Cruz

Project 1: Relating Behavior and Life Functions to Populations Level Effects in Marine Mammals: an Empirical and Modeling Effort to Develop the PCAD Model – Project...
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Keywords: Marine mammals, PCAD, Populations

A bioenergetics approach to developing a population concequences of acoustic disturbance model

2012
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Costa, D.

In an effort to know how measurable short-term responses result in biologically meaningful changes in populations, a National Research Council Committee developed the population consequences of...
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Keywords: Bioenergetics, PCAD, Populations, Vital rates