A Brief Review of Known Effects of Noise on Marine Mammals

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Changes in bottlenose dolphin whistle parameters related to vessel presence, surface behaviour and group composition (2016, background): “Although excessive noise can cause hearing damage, and even strandings in cetaceans (Weilgart, 2007), the more relevant impacts of boat noise generated through marine tourism activities are likely to be the masking of calls (Jensen et al., 2009) or biological cues (Clark et al., 2009), behavioural…”
A New Framework for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammals in a Rapidly Changing Arctic (2012, background): “…the focus of numerous scientific reviews and workshops over the past 40 years (e.g., Payne and Webb 1971, Fletcher and Busnel 1978, Richardson et al. 1995, NRC 2005 and the citations therein, MMC 2007, Nowacek et al. 2007, Southall et al. 2007, Weilgart 2007, Tyack 2008, Southall and Nowacek 2009).”