Caribbean Sea Soundscapes: Monitoring Humpback Whales, Biological Sounds, Geological Events, and Anthropogenic Impacts of Vessel Noise

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Heather Heenehan, Joy E. Stanistreet, Peter J. Corkeron, Laurent Bouveret, Julien Chalifour, Genevieve E. Davis, Angiolina Henriquez, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Logan Kline, Caroline Reed, Omar Shamir-Reynoso, Fabien Védie, Wijnand De Wolf, Paul Hoetjes, Sofie M. Van Parijs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: passive acoustic monitoring; soundscape; marine mammal; humpback whale; anthropogenic noise; Caribbean; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Four Islands; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Humpback Whale; Physeter macrocephalus; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00347; https://doaj.org/article/e0154a9a03b24ebfbd07169954cd1754

Assessing marine soundscapes provides an understanding of the biological, geological and anthropogenic composition of a habitat, including species diversity, community composition, and human impacts. For this study, nine acoustic recorders were deployed between December 2016 and June 2017 off six Ca...