Fitting Models of the Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance to Data from Marine Mammal Populations

• Main Authors: Clark, James S, Schick, Robert S
• Other Authors: DUKE UNIV DURHAM NC NICHOLAS SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND EARTH SCIENCES
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Ecology; Stress Physiology; Biological Oceanography; Acoustics; *ACOUSTICS; *SEALS(MAMMALS); *WHALES; FITTING FUNCTIONS(MATHEMATICS); MODELS; POPULATION; SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS; NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS; NORTHERN RIGHT WHALES; McMahon; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA602532; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA602532

The long-term goal is to build an ecological modeling framework that facilitates understanding of the at-sea condition and health of various species of marine mammals. We will use the results from these models to explore and quantify the impact of different types of disturbance (both environmental a...