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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 286, 期 1899, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2592
关键词
Hyperoodon ampullatus; military sonar; cetacean; marine mammal; disturbance
资金
- US Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-15-1-2533, N00014-16-1-3059]
- US Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) [RC-2337]
- French Ministry of Defence (DGA)
- Netherlands Ministry of Defence
- MASTS pooling initiative (Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland)
- Scottish Funding Council [HR09011]
Impact assessments for sonar operations typically use received sound levels to predict behavioural disturbance in marine mammals. However, there are indications that cetaceans may learn to associate exposures from distant sound sources with lower perceived risk. To investigate the roles of source distance and received level in an area without frequent sonar activity, we conducted multi-scale controlled exposure experiments (n = 3) with 12 northern bottlenose whales near Jan Mayen, Norway. Animals were tagged with high-resolution archival tags (n = 1 per experiment) or medium-resolution satellite tags (n = 9 in total) and subsequently exposed to sonar. We also deployed bottom-moored recorders to acoustically monitor for whales in the exposed area. Tagged whales initiated avoidance of the sound source over a wide range of distances (0.8-28 km), with responses characteristic of beaked whales. Both onset and intensity of response were better predicted by received sound pressure level (SPL) than by source distance. Avoidance threshold SPLs estimated for each whale ranged from 117-126 dB re 1 mu Pa, comparable to those of other tagged beaked whales. In this pristine underwater acoustic environment, we found no indication that the source distances tested in our experiments modulated the behavioural effects of sonar, as has been suggested for locations where whales are frequently exposed to sonar.
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