Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ...
Aquatically breeding harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) males use underwater vocalizations during the breeding season to establish underwater territories, defend territories against intruder males, and possibly to attract females. Vessel noise overlaps in frequency with these vocalizations and could nega...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.pvmcvdnh8 2024-02-04T10:00:33+01:00 Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... Matthews, Leanna P. Fournet, Michelle E. H. Gabriele, Christine Parks, Susan E. Klinck, Holger 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pvmcvdnh8 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.pvmcvdnh8 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0795 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Vocalizations Marine mammals harbour seals Dataset dataset 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pvmcvdnh810.1098/rsbl.2019.0795 2024-01-05T01:14:15Z Aquatically breeding harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) males use underwater vocalizations during the breeding season to establish underwater territories, defend territories against intruder males, and possibly to attract females. Vessel noise overlaps in frequency with these vocalizations and could negatively impact breeding success by limiting communication space. In this study we investigated whether harbour seals employed anti-masking strategies to maintain communication in the presence of vessel noise in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Harbour seals in this location did not sufficiently adjust source levels or acoustic parameters of vocalizations to compensate for acoustic masking. Instead, for every 1 dB increase in ambient noise, signal excess decreased by 0.84 dB, indicating a reduction in communication space when vessels passed. We suggest that harbour seals may already be acoustically advertising at or near a biologically maximal sound level, and therefore lack the ability to increase ... Dataset glacier harbour seal Phoca vitulina Alaska DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Glacier Bay |
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Vocalizations Marine mammals harbour seals Matthews, Leanna P. Fournet, Michelle E. H. Gabriele, Christine Parks, Susan E. Klinck, Holger Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... |
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Aquatically breeding harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) males use underwater vocalizations during the breeding season to establish underwater territories, defend territories against intruder males, and possibly to attract females. Vessel noise overlaps in frequency with these vocalizations and could negatively impact breeding success by limiting communication space. In this study we investigated whether harbour seals employed anti-masking strategies to maintain communication in the presence of vessel noise in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Harbour seals in this location did not sufficiently adjust source levels or acoustic parameters of vocalizations to compensate for acoustic masking. Instead, for every 1 dB increase in ambient noise, signal excess decreased by 0.84 dB, indicating a reduction in communication space when vessels passed. We suggest that harbour seals may already be acoustically advertising at or near a biologically maximal sound level, and therefore lack the ability to increase ... |
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Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... |
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Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... |
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Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... |
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Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... |
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Data from: Acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast Alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... |
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data from: acoustically advertising male harbour seals in southeast alaska do not make biologically relevant acoustic adjustments in the presence of vessel noise ... |
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