Title
Predicting acoustic dose associated with marine mammal behavioural responses to sound as detected with fixed acoustic recorders and satellite tags
Author
von Benda-Beckmann, A.M.
Wensveen, P.J.
Prior, M.
Ainslie, M.A.
Hansen, R.R.
Isojunno, S.
Lam, F.P.A.
Kvadsheim, P.H.
Miller, P.J.O.
Publication year
2019
Abstract
To understand the consequences of underwater noise exposure for cetaceans, there is a need for assessments of behavioural responses over increased spatial and temporal scales. Bottom-moored acoustic recorders and satellite tags provide such long-term and large spatial coverage of behaviour compared to short-duration acoustic-recording tags. However, these tools result in a decreased resolution of data from which an animal response can be inferred, and no direct recording of the sound received at the animal. This study discusses the consequence of the decreased resolution of data from satellite tags and fixed acoustic recorders on the acoustic dose estimated by propagation modelling and presents a method for estimating the range of sound levels that animals observed with these methods have received. This problem is illustrated using experimental results obtained during controlled exposures of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus) exposed to naval sonar, carried out near Jan Mayen, Norway. It is shown that variability and uncertainties in the sound field, resulting from limited sampling of the acoustic environment, as well as decreased resolution in animal locations, can lead to quantifiable uncertainties in the estimated acoustic dose associated with the behavioural response (in this case avoidance and cessation of foraging). © 2019 Acoustical Society of America.
Subject
Acoustic fields
Behavioral research
Mammals
Noise pollution
Satellites
Uncertainty analysis
Underwater acoustics
Acoustic environment
Animal response
Bottlenose whales
Marine mammals
Short durations
Spatial and temporal scale
Spatial coverage
Underwater noise
Bioacoustics
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TNO identifier
866270
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America
Source
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145 (3), 1401-1416
Document type
article