Behavioural reactions of free-ranging porpoises and seals to the noise of a simulated 2 MW windpower generator

By S. Koschinski, B. Culik, O. D. Henriksen, N. Tregenza, G. Ellis, C. Jansen, Günter Kathe. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• Responses of cetaceans to anthropogenic noise (2007, background): “Koschinski et al. (2003) observed reactions of harbour porpoises and harbour seals Phoca vitulina to the broadcast of wind generator noise, and reported source levels but did not report any information on RL. Madsen et al. (2006a) reviewed a broader array of studies on responses of marine mammals…”
• Potential impacts of wave-powered marine renewable energy installations on marine birds (2010, background): “Natural wariness to anthropogenic activity might exclude animals from the critical area during construction, thus reducing the potential impact (Burger 1988, Koschinski et al. 2003), but responses vary with the stimuli and are hard to quantify (Hill et al. 1997).”
• Impacts of climate change on marine organisms and ecosystems. (2009, background): “Offshore wind farms and tidal barrages are two of several options for generating electricity without emitting CO2 [142], yet ironically both have the potential to affect marine ecosystems adversely, bringing additional indirect climate-related degradation [143,144].”
• Responses of harbour porpoises to pile driving at the Horns Rev II offshore wind farm in the Danish North Sea (2011, background): “Two studies also addressed this issue in harbour porpoises: Koschinski et al. (2003) found no significant difference in the use of echolocation by porpoises when subjected to turbine noise; Teilmann et al. (2006) found echolocation activity of harbour porpoises to decrease in 3 out of 25 sessions…”
• The impacts of anthropogenic ocean noise on cetaceans and implications for management (2007, background): “Still, even high-frequency specialists such as harbor porpoises can detect the low-frequency noise generated by wind turbines, as evidenced by their reaction to it (Koschinski et al. 2003).”