Shipping noise in whale habitat: Characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park hub
WOS International audience A continuous car ferry line crossing the Saguenay Fjord mouth and traffic from the local whale-watching fleet introduce high levels of shipping noise in the heart of the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park. To characterize this noise and examine its potential impact on belug...
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WOS International audience A continuous car ferry line crossing the Saguenay Fjord mouth and traffic from the local whale-watching fleet introduce high levels of shipping noise in the heart of the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park. To characterize this noise and examine its potential impact on belugas, a 4-hydrophone array was deployed in the area and continuously recorded for five weeks in May-June 2009. The source levels of the different vessel types showed little dependence on vessel size or speed increase. Their spectral range covered 33 dB. Lowest noise levels occurred at night, when ferry crossing pace was reduced, and daytime noise peaked during whale-watching tour departures and arrivals. Natural ambient noise prevailed 9.4% of the time. Ferry traffic added 30-35 dB to ambient levels above 1 kHz during crossings, which contributed 8 to 14 dB to hourly averages. The whale-watching fleet added up to 5.6 dB during peak hours. Assuming no behavioral or auditory compensation, half of the time, beluga potential communication range was reduced to less than 30% of its expected value under natural noise conditions, and to less than 15% for one quarter of the time, with little dependence on call frequency. The echolocation band for this population of belugas was also affected by the shipping noise. |
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Shipping noise in whale habitat: Characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park hub |
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Shipping noise in whale habitat: Characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park hub |
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Shipping noise in whale habitat: Characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park hub |
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Shipping noise in whale habitat: Characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park hub |
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Shipping noise in whale habitat: Characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park hub |
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shipping noise in whale habitat: characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in saguenay-st. lawrence marine park hub |
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ftunigrenoble:oai:HAL:hal-00857183v1 2024-05-12T08:01:48+00:00 Shipping noise in whale habitat: Characteristics, sources, budget, and impact on belugas in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park hub Gervaise, Cedric Simard, Yvan Roy, Nathalie Kinda, Bazile Menard, Nadia GIPSA - Signal Images Physique (GIPSA-SIGMAPHY) Département Images et Signal (GIPSA-DIS) Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab) Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab) Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut Maurice-Lamontagne Pêches et Oceans Canada Institut des Sciences de la Mer Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) Extraction et Exploitation de l'Information en Environnements Incertains (E3I2) École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne) Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park, Parks Canada, Tadoussac, Quebec, Canada Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park, Parks Canada (SSLMP) Parks Canada = Parcs Canada-Parks Canada = Parcs Canada ISMER-UQAR Chair in underwater acoustics Europole Mer Parks Canada Defence Research and Development Canada 2012-07 https://hal.science/hal-00857183 https://hal.science/hal-00857183/document https://hal.science/hal-00857183/file/Gervaise_et_al_2012_Shipping_noise_in_whale_habitat.pdf https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4728190 en eng HAL CCSD Acoustical Society of America info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1121/1.4728190 hal-00857183 https://hal.science/hal-00857183 https://hal.science/hal-00857183/document https://hal.science/hal-00857183/file/Gervaise_et_al_2012_Shipping_noise_in_whale_habitat.pdf doi:10.1121/1.4728190 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0001-4966 EISSN: 1520-8524 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America https://hal.science/hal-00857183 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012, 132 (1), pp.76-89. ⟨10.1121/1.4728190⟩ acoustic noise biocommunications hydrophones underwater sound zoology [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing [SPI.ACOU]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Acoustics [physics.class-ph] [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing [PHYS.MECA.ACOU]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Acoustics [physics.class-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2012 ftunigrenoble https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4728190 2024-04-18T02:13:43Z WOS International audience A continuous car ferry line crossing the Saguenay Fjord mouth and traffic from the local whale-watching fleet introduce high levels of shipping noise in the heart of the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park. To characterize this noise and examine its potential impact on belugas, a 4-hydrophone array was deployed in the area and continuously recorded for five weeks in May-June 2009. The source levels of the different vessel types showed little dependence on vessel size or speed increase. Their spectral range covered 33 dB. Lowest noise levels occurred at night, when ferry crossing pace was reduced, and daytime noise peaked during whale-watching tour departures and arrivals. Natural ambient noise prevailed 9.4% of the time. Ferry traffic added 30-35 dB to ambient levels above 1 kHz during crossings, which contributed 8 to 14 dB to hourly averages. The whale-watching fleet added up to 5.6 dB during peak hours. Assuming no behavioral or auditory compensation, half of the time, beluga potential communication range was reduced to less than 30% of its expected value under natural noise conditions, and to less than 15% for one quarter of the time, with little dependence on call frequency. The echolocation band for this population of belugas was also affected by the shipping noise. Article in Journal/Newspaper Beluga Beluga* Université Grenoble Alpes: HAL The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132 1 76 89 |