Data from: Evidence for ship noise impacts on humpback whale foraging behaviour

• Main Authors: Blair, Hannah B., Merchant, Nathan D., Friedlaender, Ari S., Wiley, David N., Parks, Susan E.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; anthropogenic noise; humpback whale; foraging; Gulf of Maine; Megaptera novaeangliae; envir; info; Blair; baleen whale; Humpback Whale; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.18637

Noise from shipping activity in North Atlantic coastal waters has been steadily increasing and is an area of growing conservation concern, as it has the potential to disrupt the behaviour of marine organisms. This study examines the impacts of ship noise on bottom foraging humpback whales (Megaptera...