Supplementary material from "Limited vocal compensation for elevated ambient noise in bearded seals: implications for an industrializing Arctic ocean"
Vocalizing animals have several strategies to compensate for elevated ambient noise. These behaviours evolved under historical conditions, but compensation limits are quickly being reached in the Anthropocene. Acoustic communication is essential to male bearded seals that vocalize for courtship and...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5305431.v1 2023-05-15T14:49:32+02:00 Supplementary material from "Limited vocal compensation for elevated ambient noise in bearded seals: implications for an industrializing Arctic ocean" Fournet, Michelle E. H. Silvestri, Margherita Clark, Christopher W. Klinck, Holger Rice, Aaron N. 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5305431.v1 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Limited_vocal_compensation_for_elevated_ambient_noise_in_bearded_seals_implications_for_an_industrializing_Arctic_ocean_/5305431/1 unknown The Royal Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2712 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5305431 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Ecology FOS Biological sciences 60801 Animal Behaviour Collection article 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5305431.v1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2712 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5305431 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Vocalizing animals have several strategies to compensate for elevated ambient noise. These behaviours evolved under historical conditions, but compensation limits are quickly being reached in the Anthropocene. Acoustic communication is essential to male bearded seals that vocalize for courtship and defending territories. As Arctic sea ice declines, industrial activities and associated anthropogenic noise are likely to increase. Documenting how seals respond to noise and identifying naturally occurring behavioural thresholds would indicate either their resilience or vulnerability to changing soundscapes. We investigated whether male bearded seals modified call amplitudes in response to changing ambient noise levels. Vocalizing seals increased their call amplitudes until ambient noise levels reached an observable threshold, above which call source levels stopped increasing. The presence of a threshold indicates limited noise compensation for seals, which still renders them vulnerable to acoustic masking of vocal signals. This behavioural threshold and response to noise is critical for developing management plans for an industrializing Arctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Sea ice DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Arctic Ocean |
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Vocalizing animals have several strategies to compensate for elevated ambient noise. These behaviours evolved under historical conditions, but compensation limits are quickly being reached in the Anthropocene. Acoustic communication is essential to male bearded seals that vocalize for courtship and defending territories. As Arctic sea ice declines, industrial activities and associated anthropogenic noise are likely to increase. Documenting how seals respond to noise and identifying naturally occurring behavioural thresholds would indicate either their resilience or vulnerability to changing soundscapes. We investigated whether male bearded seals modified call amplitudes in response to changing ambient noise levels. Vocalizing seals increased their call amplitudes until ambient noise levels reached an observable threshold, above which call source levels stopped increasing. The presence of a threshold indicates limited noise compensation for seals, which still renders them vulnerable to acoustic masking of vocal signals. This behavioural threshold and response to noise is critical for developing management plans for an industrializing Arctic. |
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Supplementary material from "Limited vocal compensation for elevated ambient noise in bearded seals: implications for an industrializing Arctic ocean" |
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