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Svein Vagle, Rianna E. Burnham, Caitlin O?Neill and Harald Yurk
Oceanic acoustic environments are dynamic, shaped by the spatiotemporal variability in transmission losses and sound propagation pathways of natural and human-derived noise sources. Here we used recordings of an experimental noise source combined with tr...
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Lise Doksæter Sivle, Emilie Hernes Vereide, Karen de Jong, Tonje Nesse Forland, John Dalen and Henning Wehde
Anthropogenic noise has been recognized as a source of concern since the beginning of the 1940s and is receiving increasingly more attention. While international focus has been on the effects of noise on marine mammals, Norway has managed seismic surveys...
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Marta Picciulin, Marta Bolgan, Nikolina Rako-Gospic, Antonio Petrizzo, Marko Radulovic and Raffaela Falkner
Spatio-temporal variability of marine soundscapes reflects environmental dynamics and local habitat health. This study characterizes the coastal soundscape of the Cres-Lo?inj Natura 2000 Site of Community Importance, encompassing the non-tourist (11?15 M...
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Sérgio M. Jesus, Cristiano Soares, Miriam Romagosa, Irma Cascão, Ricardo Duarte, Friedrich Zabel and Mónica A. Silva
Economic globalization and the continuous search for food, energy and raw materials led to an estimated 3 dB/decade increase of ocean noise intensity. Determining the level of anthropogenic noise, the so-called excess noise, and building identifiable mea...
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Christine Erbe, Renee P. Schoeman, David Peel and Joshua N. Smith
Marine soundscapes consist of cumulative contributions by diverse sources of sound grouped into: physical (e.g., wind), biological (e.g., fish), and anthropogenic (e.g., shipping)?each with unique spatial, temporal, and frequency characteristics. In term...
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Kalle Haikonen, Jan Sundberg and Mats Leijon
Wave energy conversion is a clean electric power production technology. During operation there are no emissions in the form of harmful gases. However there are unsolved issues considering environmental impacts such as: electromagnetism; the artificial re...
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Kaustubha Raghukumar, Grace Chang, Frank Spada and Craig Jones
NoiseSpotter is a passive acoustic monitoring system that characterizes, classifies, and geo-locates anthropogenic and natural sounds in near real time. It was developed with the primary goal of supporting the evaluation of potential acoustic effects of ...
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Jessica J. Sportelli, Kelly M. Heimann and Brittany L. Jones
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) rely on frequency- and amplitude-modulated whistles to communicate, and noise exposure can inhibit the success of acoustic communication through masking or causing behavioral changes in the animal. At the US Navy ...
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Antonella Carosi
This Special Issue intended to collect articles focusing on the assessment of the possible effects of climate changes on aquatic species inhabiting inland waters all over the world, including the possible synergistic effects in combination with other ant...
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Kun Li, Ling Wang, Zhaohua Li, Yujing Xie, Xiangrong Wang and Qing Fang
The degradation of water quality in lakes and its negative effects on freshwater ecosystems have become a serious problem worldwide. Exploring the dynamics in the associated factors is essential for water pollution management and control. GIS interpolati...
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Kun Li, Ling Wang, Zhaohua Li, Yujing Xie, Xiangrong Wang, Qing Fang
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The degradation of water quality in lakes and its negative effects on freshwater ecosystems have become a serious problem worldwide. Exploring the dynamics in the associated factors is essential for water pollution management and control. GIS interpolati...
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Haiji Liang, Chong Chen, Kexin Wang and Guanqiong Ye
Coastal wetlands provide essential ecosystem services, while usually experiencing land transformation or degradation mainly due to intense anthropogenic activities and climate changes. Understanding the changes in wetlands ecosystem services is essential...
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Shane Guan and Tiffini Brookens
Underwater sound generated from human activities has been long recognized to cause adverse effects on marine mammals, ranging from auditory masking to behavioral disturbance to hearing impairment. In certain instances, underwater sound has led to physica...
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Fengqin Zhu, Oleg E. Gulin and Igor O. Yaroshchuk
The results obtained in the present research show the complex nature of the propagation of sound signals and noise in the conditions of the shallow waters of the Arctic basin shelf. Despite the rather simple hydrology of the water column, a high degree o...
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Irina Makarova, Polina Buyvol, Eduard Mukhametdinov and Aleksey Boyko
The Arctic zone of the Russian Federation is of strategic importance for the country. Considering the fragility of Arctic ecosystems, special attention needs to be paid to the sustainable development of transport and related infrastructure within the fra...
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Francisco Javier Rodrigo, Jaime Ramis, Jesus Carbajo and Pedro Poveda
Anthropogenic noise is a growing threat to marine life due to the incrementation of human activity in the marine environment. In Europe, the Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council was published with the aim of establishing a f...
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Andreia Pereira, Miriam Romagosa, Carlos Corela, Mónica A. Silva and Luis Matias
Source level is one factor that determines the effectiveness of animal signal transmissions and their acoustic communication active space. Ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS) are platforms of opportunity to monitor marine species because they record data as ...
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Giuseppe Ciaburro, Gino Iannace and Amelia Trematerra
Small UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle) can be used in many sectors such as the acquisition of images or the transport of objects. Small UAVs have also been used for terrorist activities or to disturb the flight of airplanes. Due to the small size and the p...
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Apostolos Tsouvalas and Andrei V. Metrikine
Anthropogenic noise emission in the marine environment is a key issue nowadays and has drawn the attention of regulatory bodies in various nations. In particular, the noise generated during the installation of foundation piles for the offshore wind indus...
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Jürgen Hofmann, Daniel Karthe, Ralf Ibisch, Michael Schäffer, Saulyegul Avlyush, Sonja Heldt and Andrew Kaus
A comprehensive monitoring project (2006?2013) provided data on hydrology, hydromorphology, climatology, water physico-chemistry, sedimentology, macroinvertebrate community and fish diversity in the Kharaa River basin in northern Mongolia, thus enabling,...
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