Data from: Vessel noise levels drive behavioural responses of humpback whales with implications for whale-watching ...
Disturbance from whale-watching can cause significant behavioural changes with fitness consequences for targeted whale populations. However, the sensory stimuli triggering these responses are unknown, preventing effective mitigation. Here, we test the hypothesis that vessel noise level is a driver o...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5dq 2024-02-04T10:02:03+01:00 Data from: Vessel noise levels drive behavioural responses of humpback whales with implications for whale-watching ... Sprogis, Kate 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5dq https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5dq en eng Dryad Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Dataset dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9kd51c5dq 2024-01-05T04:39:59Z Disturbance from whale-watching can cause significant behavioural changes with fitness consequences for targeted whale populations. However, the sensory stimuli triggering these responses are unknown, preventing effective mitigation. Here, we test the hypothesis that vessel noise level is a driver of disturbance, using humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) as a model species. We conducted controlled exposure experiments (n= 42) on resting mother-calf pairs on a resting ground off Australia, by simulating whale-watch scenarios with a research vessel (range 100 m, speed 1.5 knts) playing back vessel noise at control/low (124/148 dB), medium (160 dB) or high (172 dB) LF-weighted source levels (re 1 μPa RMS@1m). Compared to control/low treatments, during high noise playbacks the mother’s proportion of time resting decreased by 30%, respiration rate doubled and swim speed increased by 37%. We therefore conclude that vessel noise is an adequate driver of behavioural disturbance in whales and that regulations to ... : Controlled exposure experiments, focal follows from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The supplementary video provides 3 examples of control, medium and high noise controlled exposure experiments. ... Dataset Megaptera novaeangliae DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Disturbance from whale-watching can cause significant behavioural changes with fitness consequences for targeted whale populations. However, the sensory stimuli triggering these responses are unknown, preventing effective mitigation. Here, we test the hypothesis that vessel noise level is a driver of disturbance, using humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) as a model species. We conducted controlled exposure experiments (n= 42) on resting mother-calf pairs on a resting ground off Australia, by simulating whale-watch scenarios with a research vessel (range 100 m, speed 1.5 knts) playing back vessel noise at control/low (124/148 dB), medium (160 dB) or high (172 dB) LF-weighted source levels (re 1 μPa RMS@1m). Compared to control/low treatments, during high noise playbacks the mother’s proportion of time resting decreased by 30%, respiration rate doubled and swim speed increased by 37%. We therefore conclude that vessel noise is an adequate driver of behavioural disturbance in whales and that regulations to ... : Controlled exposure experiments, focal follows from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The supplementary video provides 3 examples of control, medium and high noise controlled exposure experiments. ... |
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