Image_2_Caribbean Sea Soundscapes: Monitoring Humpback Whales, Biological Sounds, Geological Events, and Anthropogenic Impacts of Vessel Noise.JPEG

• 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: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Oceanography; Marine Biology; Marine Geoscience; Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Marine Engineering; passive acoustic monitoring; soundscape; marine mammal; humpback whale; anthropogenic noise; Caribbean; Four Islands; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Humpback Whale; Physeter macrocephalus; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00347.s002; https://figshare.com/articles/Image_2_Caribbean_Sea_Soundscapes_Monitoring_Humpback_Whales_Biological_Sounds_Geological_Events_and_Anthropogenic_Impacts_of_Vessel_Noise_JPEG/8425712

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...