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Vessel noise levels drive behavioural responses of humpback whales with implications for whale-watching.
Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Harbour porpoises respond to recreational boats by speeding up and moving away from the boat path.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Small reductions in cargo vessel speed substantially reduce noise impacts to marine mammals.Science advances · 2023Article
- The influence of tourist visitation on the heterophyl to lymphocyte ratios and trophic values of Magellanic penguins (Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Variation in blubber cortisol levels in a recovering humpback whale population inhabiting a rapidly changing environment.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Effects of vessel traffic and ocean noise on gray whale stress hormones.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Vessel noise levels drive behavioural responses of humpback whales with implications for whale-watching.eLife · 2020Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Disturbance from whale-watching can cause significant behavioural changes with fitness consequences for targeted whale populations. However, the sensory stimuli triggering these responses are unknown, preventing effective mitigation. Here, we test the hypothesis that vessel noise level is a driver of disturbance, using humpback whales (
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