Listening to animal behavior to understand changing ecosystems

WK Oestreich, RY Oliver, MS Chapman, M Go… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Interpreting sound gives powerful insight into the health of ecosystems. Beyond detecting
the presence of wildlife, bioacoustic signals can reveal their behavior. However, behavioral …

Wild harbour porpoises startle and flee at low received levels from acoustic harassment device

SL Elmegaard, J Teilmann, L Rojano-Doñate… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Acoustic Harassment Devices (AHD) are widely used to deter marine mammals
from aquaculture depredation, and from pile driving operations that may otherwise cause …

[HTML][HTML] Rerouting of a major shipping lane through important harbour porpoise habitat caused no detectable change in annual occurrence or foraging patterns

K Owen, J Carlström, P Eriksson, M Andersson… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Shipping is one of the largest industries globally, with well-known negative impacts on the
marine environment. Despite the known negative short-term (minutes to hours) impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Characterising underwater noise and changes in harbour porpoise behaviour during the decommissioning of an oil and gas platform

O Fernandez-Betelu, IM Graham, F Malcher… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many man-made marine structures (MMS) will have to be decommissioned in the coming
decades. While studies on the impacts of construction of MMS on marine mammals exist, no …

Multiscale Correlation Network and Geodesic Distance for Remote Passive Ship Detection in Marine Environment

H Zhang, H Wang, Y Yan, X Shen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The remote passive detection of vessels in the oceans is a significant activity for improving
port security and the security of coastal and offshore operations. There still needs to be an …

Click detection rate variability of central North Pacific sperm whales from passive acoustic towed arrays

YM Barkley, KPB Merkens, M Wood… - The Journal of the …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an optimal method for detecting and monitoring
cetaceans as they frequently produce sound while underwater. Cue counting, counting …

[PDF][PDF] Classification of species producing narrowband high-frequency echolocation clicks in the California Current

J Vanfleet-Brown - 2024 - scholarworks.calstate.edu
Narrowband high-frequency (NBHF) clicks are signals with duration greater than 125 µs,
one spectral peak above 100 kHz, and bandwidths (-3 dB) less than 10 kHz. Four species …