Vessel noise exposures of harbour seals from the Wadden Sea

Abstract The North Sea faces intense ship traffic owing to increasing human activities at sea. As harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) are abundant top predators in the North Sea, it is hypothesised that they experience repeated, high-amplitude vessel exposures. Here, we test this hypothesis by quantifyin...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Dominik André Nachtsheim, Mark Johnson, Tobias Schaffeld, Abbo van Neer, Peter T. Madsen, Charlotte R. Findlay, Laia Rojano-Doñate, Jonas Teilmann, Lonnie Mikkelsen, Johannes Baltzer, Andreas Ruser, Ursula Siebert, Joseph G. Schnitzler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33283-z

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