Acoustic masking in marine ecosystems: intuitions, analysis, and implication

By Christopher W. Clark, W. Ellison, B. L. Southall, L. Hatch, S. Parijs, A. Frankel, D. Ponirakis. 2009

484 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• Boat noise disrupts orientation behaviour in a coral reef fish (2013, unknown): “…presence of another stimulus), the distracting effect of noise and the avoidance of sounds have all been shown in the laboratory and in some cases are predicted in natural conditions based on auditory capabilities and noise levels (e.g. Fay 1974, Clark et al. 2009, Purser & Radford 2011).”
• Comparing marine mammal acoustic habitats in Atlantic and Pacific sectors of the High Arctic: year-long records from Fram Strait and the Chukchi Plateau (2012, unknown): “Sound from commercial shipping and seismic surveys is now ubiquitous in many temperate and tropical oceans (e.g. Hildebrand 2009), with airgun signals recorded >80% of days/months and at distances up to 5,000 km from the source in the North Atlantic basin (Nieukirk et al. 2004).”
• Marine seismic surveys and ocean noise: time for coordinated and prudent planning (2015, unknown): “To explore this subject further and to elaborate on related issues (eg masking [Clark and Ellison 2004; Clark et al. 2009; Hatch et al. 2012], stress [Warner and Heimstra 1971; Evans 2003; Otten et al. 2004; Wright et al. 2007], and behavioral responses [Castellote et al. 2012]), we provide…”
• Status of the world's baleen whales (2016, unknown): “Considerable effort has been made in recent years to understand the masking effects of elevated ambient sound levels on the ability of baleen whales to detect and project natural sounds (Clark et al. 2009, Ellison et al. 2011, Hatch et al. 2012, Moore et al. 2012a).”
• Impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine life : publication patterns, new discoveries, and future directions in research and management (2015, unknown): “shipping is increasingly recognized as a significant and pervasive pollutant with the potential to impact marine ecosystems on a global scale (Clark et al., 2009; Merchant et al., 2015;Williams et al., 2014b).”
• A New Framework for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammals in a Rapidly Changing Arctic (2012, unknown): “Conversely, masking, defined as the reduction in the area over which marine mammals can hear and communicate, has been the focus of several recent studies (e.g., Clark et al. 2009, Jensen et al. 2009).”
• The Effects of Ship Noise on Marine Mammals—A Review (2019, unknown): “…studies suggest that right whales have vocally adapted to environments with increased low-frequency noise through a shift in vocalization frequency and duration (Parks et al., 2007a, 2009, 2011), which may have been a response to compensate for a loss in communication range (Clark et al., 2009).”
• Evidence for density-dependent changes in body condition and pregnancy rate of North Atlantic fin whales over four decades of varying environmental conditions (2013, unknown): “Human activities can alter the prey available to marine mammals through fishing, habitat degradation, climate-mediated changes in production, and by generating ocean noise that can mask the acoustic cues that whales may use to find prey (Clark et al., 2009; Williams et al., 2011).”
• Acoustic monitoring for conservation in tropical forests: examples from forest elephants (2017, unknown): “These effects have been studied in the marine environment (Clark et al. 2009; Ellison et al. 2011; Nowacek et al. 2015) and increasingly in urban environments (Halfwerk et al.”
• Marine mammal conservation: over the horizon (2021, unknown): “2016, Dey et al. 2019) which may themselves lead to significant injury (Jepson et al. 2003), or habitat exclusion and masking of ecologically relevant sounds like communication (Clark et al. 2009).”
• Acoustic quality of critical habitats for three threatened whale populations (2014, unknown): “A species’ acoustic ‘communication space’ (the predicted space over which animals can communicate) is decreased with the introduction of anthropogenic sound (Clark et al., 2009).”
• A review of impacts of marine dredging activities on marine mammals (2015, unknown): “Masking of important sounds can theoretically impact reproductive success of individual whales, and in turn affect populations (Croll et al., 2001; Clark et al., 2009).”
• Health of North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis over three decades: from individual health to demographic and population health trends (2016, unknown): “A growing body of underwater acoustic monitoring data collected in right whale habitats could be incorporated to investigate the relative impacts of low frequency underwater noise (Clark et al. 2009, Hatch et al. 2012).”
• Changes in bottlenose dolphin whistle parameters related to vessel presence, surface behaviour and group composition (2016, unknown): “, 2009) or biological cues (Clark et al., 2009), behavioural changes (Williams et al.”