Exploring Marine Mammal Cognition as a Conservation Tool
ABSTRACT Cognition is an animal's real‐time adaptation system for responding to change. Rapid environmental change, often anthropogenic, is expanding the range and severity of challenges confronting wild animals. Effective conservation requires a multifaceted approach that includes animals' capacities.
Gordon B. Bauer +21 more
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U.S. Law of the Sea Cruise to Map the Foot of the Slope and 2500-m Isobath of the U.S. Arctic Ocean Margin. Cruise Report for 2008 [PDF]
USCGC Icebreaker Healy (WAGB-20) U.S. Law of the Sea cruise to map the foot of the slope and 2500-m isobath of the US Arctic Ocean margin CRUISES HE-0805 August 14 to September 5, 2008 Barrow, AK to Barrow ...
Armstrong, Andy, Mayer, Larry A.
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Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 2006 [PDF]
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ABSTRACT Pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) are a poorly studied, globally‐distributed species found in pelagic waters and around oceanic islands. They are naturally rare, making them difficult to study. Reports indicate that they are highly vulnerable to artisanal fisheries bycatch in some areas.
Brittany L. Hancock‐Hanser +7 more
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Separating underwater ambient noise from flow noise recorded on stereo acoustic tags attached to marine mammals [PDF]
A.M.v.B.B. and P.B. were funded by The Netherlands Ministry of Defence. Fieldwork efforts and support for P.M. and F.S. was provided by the US Office of Naval Research [award numbers N00014-08-1-0984 and N00014-10-1-0355]. P.W. received a PhD studentship
Beerens, S. Peter +4 more
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Welfare Indicators for Aquaculture Research: Toolboxes for Five Farmed European Fish Species
ABSTRACT Refining approaches to measuring, monitoring and appraising animal welfare in aquaculture research is key to (i) protecting and optimizing it, (ii) documenting the severity of how and when it deviates, and (iii) ensuring good scientific quality, reliable results and reproducibility, amongst other factors.
Chris Noble +50 more
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Quantifying vocal response in experimental playbacks to Risso's dolphins [PDF]
In a world of constant technological development and expansion into the marine environment, the marine soundscape is constantly changing. With the addition of anthropogenic sources from naval sonar to seismic survey vessels over the past century, the ...
Boucher, Aimee
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The challenges of analyzing behavioral response study data : an overview of the MOCHA (Multi-study OCean acoustics Human effects Analysis) project [PDF]
Date of Acceptance:This paper describes the MOCHA project which aims to develop novel approaches for the analysis of data collected during Behavioral Response Studies (BRSs).
AD D’Amico +9 more
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ABSTRACT Hydroelectric dams and their turbine infrastructure threaten out‐migrating anguillid eels en route to marine spawning grounds. For decades, invested parties have attempted to guide eels away from turbines and toward safe passage routes. A subset of this work (hereafter behavioral guidance) has involved exploiting sensory biology (e.g., sight ...
M. E. Cole MacLeod +4 more
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Fish tracking technology development. Phase 1 project definition desk study [PDF]
The document reports on Phase 1 of a definition study to appraise the options to develop fish tracking equipment, in particular tags and data logging systems in order to improve the efficiency of the Environment Agency's tracking studies and to obtain a ...
Moore, A, Potter, E.C.E.
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