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Quantifying the response of Blainville’s beaked whales to U.S. naval sonar exercises in Hawaii
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dc.contributor.author | Jacobson, Eiren K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Henderson, E. Elizabeth | |
dc.contributor.author | Miller, David L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Oedekoven, Cornelia S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Moretti, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Thomas, Len | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-06T09:30:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-06-06T09:30:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jacobson , E K , Henderson , E E , Miller , D L , Oedekoven , C S , Moretti , D & Thomas , L 2022 , ' Quantifying the response of Blainville’s beaked whales to U.S. naval sonar exercises in Hawaii ' , Marine Mammal Science , vol. 38 , no. 4 , pp. 1549-1565 . https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12944 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0824-0469 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 279660366 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: d59df2d0-880b-48ca-812c-a347a2393d76 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85131157394 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85131157394 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-7436-067X/work/114335779 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-5610-7814/work/114336043 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000805089600001 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/25490 | |
dc.description | Funding: US Navy Living Marine Resources Program (Grant Number(s): N39430-17-P-1983). | en |
dc.description.abstract | Behavioral responses of beaked whales (family Ziphiidae) to naval use of mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS) have been quantified for some species and regions. We describe the effects of MFAS on the probability of detecting diving groups of Blainville's beaked whales on the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Hawaii and compare our results to previously published results for the same species at the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) in the Bahamas. We use passive acoustic data collected at bottom-mounted hydrophones before and during six naval training exercises at PMRF along with modelled sonar received levels to describe the effect of training and MFAS on foraging groups of Blainville's beaked whales. We use a multistage generalized additive modeling approach to control for the underlying spatial distribution of vocalizations under baseline conditions. At an MFAS received level of 150 dB re 1 μPa rms the probability of detecting groups of Blainville's beaked whales decreases by 77%, 95% CI [67%, 84%] compared to periods when general training activity was ongoing and by 87%, 95% CI [81%, 91%] compared to baseline conditions. Our results indicate a more pronounced response to naval training and MFAS than has been previously reported. | |
dc.format.extent | 17 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Marine Mammal Science | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Marine Mammal Science published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Marine Mammalogy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.subject | Behavioral response | en |
dc.subject | Blainville's beaked whales | en |
dc.subject | Generalized additive model | en |
dc.subject | Mesoplodon densirostris | en |
dc.subject | Mid-frequency active sonar | en |
dc.subject | Passive acoustic data | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | GC Oceanography | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | Aquatic Science | en |
dc.subject | Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | en |
dc.subject | NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.title | Quantifying the response of Blainville’s beaked whales to U.S. naval sonar exercises in Hawaii | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statistics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Statistics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12944 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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