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Jessica J. Sportelli, Kelly M. Heimann and Brittany L. Jones
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) rely on frequency- and amplitude-modulated whistles to communicate, and noise exposure can inhibit the success of acoustic communication through masking or causing behavioral changes in the animal. At the US Navy ...
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Tetsuya Endo, Osamu Kimura, Masaru Terasaki, Yoshihisa Kato, Yukiko Fujii and Koichi Haraguchi
The changes in the stable isotope ratios of carbon (d13C), nitrogen (d15N), oxygen (d18O), and mercury (Hg) concentrations in muscle and liver tissues during and after lactation were studied in killer whales stranded along the coast of Hokkaido, in the n...
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Xiaoyu Huang, Mingming Liu, Samuel T. Turvey, Mingli Lin and Songhai Li
Marine mammals are a diverse group of aquatic animals that exhibit wide variation in body size, living conditions, breeding habitat, social behaviour and phylogeny. Although case studies about prenatal investment in cetaceans and pinnipeds have been inve...
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Libin Xue and Chunjie Cao
When marine animals and underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) share spectrum resources, problems such as serious harm caused to marine animals by underwater acoustic systems and scarcity of underwater spectrum resources are encountered. To address ...
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Christin B. Khan, Kimberly T. Goetz, Hannah C. Cubaynes, Caleb Robinson, Erin Murnane, Tyler Aldrich, Meredith Sackett, Penny J. Clarke, Michelle A. LaRue, Timothy White, Kathleen Leonard, Anthony Ortiz and Juan M. Lavista Ferres
Monitoring marine mammals is of broad interest to governments and individuals around the globe. Very high-resolution (VHR) satellites hold the promise of reaching remote and challenging locations to fill gaps in our knowledge of marine mammal distributio...
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Carolyn D. Ruppel, Thomas C. Weber, Erica R. Staaterman, Stanley J. Labak and Patrick E. Hart
Marine acoustic sources are widely used for geophysical imaging, oceanographic sensing, and communicating with and tracking objects or robotic vehicles in the water column. Under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act and similar regulations in several ot...
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Ching-Tang Hung, Wei-Yen Chu, Wei-Lun Li, Yen-Hsiang Huang, Wei-Chun Hu and Chi-Fang Chen
In recent years, Taiwan?s government has focused on policies regarding offshore wind farming near the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin habitat, where marine mammal observation is a critical consideration. The present research developed an algorithm called N...
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Shane Guan and Tiffini Brookens
Underwater sound generated from human activities has been long recognized to cause adverse effects on marine mammals, ranging from auditory masking to behavioral disturbance to hearing impairment. In certain instances, underwater sound has led to physica...
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Kun Li, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Thomas Guilment, Tingting Tang and Christopher O. Tiemann
Passive acoustic monitoring has been successfully used to study deep-diving marine mammal populations. To assess regional population trends of sperm whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM), including impacts of the Deepwater Horizon platform oil spil...
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Garrett Staines, Gayle Barbin Zydlewski, Haley A. Viehman and Rachel Kocik
Coastal regions are highly used by humans. The growing marine renewable energy (MRE) industry will add to existing anthropogenic pressures in these regions. Regulatory bodies require animal risk assessment before new industrial activities can progress, a...
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