Development of a model to assess masking potential for marine mammals by the use of air guns in Antarctic waters

Dietrich Wittekind; Jakob Tougaard; Peter Stilz; Michael Dähne; Christopher W. Clark; K. Lucke; Sander von Benda-Beckmann; Michael A. Ainslie; Ursula Siebert

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_156

Development of a model to assess masking potential for marine mammals by the use of air guns in Antarctic waters

Dietrich Wittekind, Jakob Tougaard, Peter Stilz, Michael Dähne^*, Christopher W. Clark, K. Lucke, Sander von Benda-Beckmann, Michael A. Ainslie, Ursula Siebert

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We estimated the long-range effects of air gun array noise on marine mammal communication ranges in the Southern Ocean. Air gun impulses are subject to significant distortion during propagation, potentially resulting in a quasi- continuous sound. Propagation modeling to estimate the received waveform was conducted. A leaky integrator was used as a hearing model to assess communication masking in three species due to intermittent/continuous air gun sounds. Air gun noise is most probably changing from impulse to continuous noise between 1,000 and 2,000 km from the source, leading to a reduced communication range for, e.g., blue and fin whales up to 2,000 km from the source.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1243-1249
ISBN (Electronic)	9781493929818
ISBN (Print)	9781493929801
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_156
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Name	Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Volume	875
ISSN (Print)	0065-2598
ISSN (Electronic)	2214-8019

Keywords

Mysticetes
Pinnipeds
Propagation modeling
Seismic

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Wittekind, D., Tougaard, J., Stilz, P., Dähne, M., Clark, C. W., Lucke, K., von Benda-Beckmann, S., Ainslie, M. A., & Siebert, U. (2016). Development of a model to assess masking potential for marine mammals by the use of air guns in Antarctic waters. In The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II (pp. 1243-1249). (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Vol. 875). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_156

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Development of a model to assess masking potential for marine mammals by the use of air guns in Antarctic waters. / Wittekind, Dietrich; Tougaard, Jakob; Stilz, Peter et al.
The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Springer, 2016. p. 1243-1249 (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Vol. 875).

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Development of a model to assess masking potential for marine mammals by the use of air guns in Antarctic waters

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