Tour boats affect the activity patterns of bottlenose dolphins (

Ayshah Kassamali-Fox, Fredrik Christiansen, Laura J May-Collado, Eric A Ramos, Beth A Kaplin

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Article in PeerJ, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

Do Boat Traffic and Habitat Features Shape Habitat Use by Guiana Dolphins (Ecology and evolution · 2026
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Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Metabolic Rate in Relation to Reduced Energy Acquisition.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026
Article
Exploring the evidence of direct threats to cetaceans from maritime vessels: A systematic map.PloS one · 2026
Article
The Effects of Vessel Traffic on the Behavior Patterns of Common Dolphins in the Tagus Estuary (Portugal).Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
Article
A Quieter Ocean: Experimentally Derived Differences in Attentive Responses ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
Article
Cognitive Foraging Enrichment (but Not Non-Cognitive Enrichment) Improved Several Longer-Term Welfare Indicators in Bottlenose Dolphins.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
Article
Cetacean Acoustic Welfare in Wild and Managed-Care Settings: Gaps and Opportunities.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021
Review
Dolphin Watching and Compliance to Guidelines Affect Spinner Dolphins' (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ayshah Kassamali-FoxDepartment of Environmental Studies, Antioch University New England, Keene, NH, USA.

Fredrik ChristiansenAarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus C, Denmark.

Laura J May-ColladoDepartment of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.

Eric A RamosDepartment of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.

Beth A KaplinCenter of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bottlenose dolphins (

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Behavioral responsesBottlenose dolphinsDolphin conservationHuman interactionsMarkov chain modelsTourism impacts

Identifiers

PMID32266117

DOI10.7717/peerj.8804

PMCPMC7115753

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