Abstract
Several studies have shown that cetaceans respond to the physical presence and/or acoustic emissions from marine vessels. For example, cetaceans perform surface-active behaviors (SABs) in response to an increase in the number of and/or close approaches by vessels (Lusseau 2006; Noren et al. 2009; Williams et al. 2002, 2009). SABs are often performed in bouts of one or more behaviors performed sequentially, and the majority of SABs provide both visual and acoustic signals that are important to social marine mammals. Indeed, the use of sound is essential to the survival and reproduction of cetaceans (National Research Council 2003), and because of this, anthropogenic sound exposure in marine mammals is a concern. Individuals may compensate for increased vessel noise by changing the amplitude (Holt et al. 2009; Scheifele et al. 2005), duration (Foote et al. 2004), repetition rate, and/or frequency of the sounds they produce.
Keywords
- Acoustic Emission
- Marine Mammal
- Energetic Cost
- Metabolic Cost
- Killer Whale
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This research was funded by Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, and Office of Naval Research (ONR), Arlington, VA, grants to T. M. Williams, D. P. Noren, and M. M. Holt. These experiments were made possible through the efforts of dolphin trainers Traci Kendall, Jen Walsh, Brett Long, and Beau Richter from the Mammalian Physiology Laboratory, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA. All protocols were approved by the University of California, Santa Cruz, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
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Noren, D.P., Dunkin, R.C., Williams, T.M., Holt, M.M. (2012). Energetic Cost of Behaviors Performed in Response to Vessel Disturbance: One Link in the Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance Model. In: Popper, A.N., Hawkins, A. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 730. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7311-5_97
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