Seismic surveys negatively affect humpback whale singing activity off northern Angola.

Passive acoustic monitoring was used to document the presence of singing humpback whales off the coast of Northern Angola, and opportunistically test for the effect of seismic survey activity in the vicinity on the number of singing whales. Two Marine Autonomous Recording Units (MARUs) were deployed...

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Main Authors: Salvatore Cerchio, Samantha Strindberg, Tim Collins, Chanda Bennett, Howard Rosenbaum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24618836/?tool=EBI