Commercial shipping noise impacts on the critical habitat of the southern resident killer whale (Orcinus orca) ...
Southern resident killer whales (SRKWs), found commonly on the south coast of British Columbia, are an endangered species struggling to maintain its population size. The critical habitat of the SRKW, an area important to the recovery of the species, is also an area traversed by commercial ships on a...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/1.0074558 2024-04-28T08:27:20+00:00 Commercial shipping noise impacts on the critical habitat of the southern resident killer whale (Orcinus orca) ... Crystal, Danica Moseley, Kristina Paterson, Cassandra Ryvola, Rebeka Wang, Shasha 2011 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0074558 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0074558 en eng The University of British Columbia article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2011 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0074558 2024-04-02T09:56:51Z Southern resident killer whales (SRKWs), found commonly on the south coast of British Columbia, are an endangered species struggling to maintain its population size. The critical habitat of the SRKW, an area important to the recovery of the species, is also an area traversed by commercial ships on a daily basis. Among other challenges to the whales such as habitat destruction and contamination, noise pollution produced by these commercial ships is one of the threats preventing the recovery of the SRKWs, through masking of whale communications. Masking, the interruption of killer whale vocalizations by background noise produced by ships, reduces group cohesion and forces the whales to spend more time and energy foraging, ultimately decreasing their ability to reproduce and sustain their population. The Canadian Federal Court recently established that protection of this endangered species, managed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), must take into account the impact of noise pollution on the ... Text Killer Whale Orca Orcinus orca Killer whale DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Southern resident killer whales (SRKWs), found commonly on the south coast of British Columbia, are an endangered species struggling to maintain its population size. The critical habitat of the SRKW, an area important to the recovery of the species, is also an area traversed by commercial ships on a daily basis. Among other challenges to the whales such as habitat destruction and contamination, noise pollution produced by these commercial ships is one of the threats preventing the recovery of the SRKWs, through masking of whale communications. Masking, the interruption of killer whale vocalizations by background noise produced by ships, reduces group cohesion and forces the whales to spend more time and energy foraging, ultimately decreasing their ability to reproduce and sustain their population. The Canadian Federal Court recently established that protection of this endangered species, managed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), must take into account the impact of noise pollution on the ... |
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