Does air-gun noise harm marine mammals?
| Autor: | Jack Caldwell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | The Leading Edge. 21:75-78 |
| ISSN: | 1938-3789 1070-485X |
| DOI: | 10.1190/1.1445856 |
| Popis: | Do seismic air-gun arrays, in routine practice, cause significant and harmful impacts to marine mammals? Biologists, acousticians, geophysicists, and government regulatory technical managers do not agree on a simple and definitive answer. What they do agree about is that there is a lack of data with which to answer that question. Three recent developments should create optimism that those data will soon begin to be collected: (1) new developments in in-field, electronic tagging technology; (2) global interest in the overall issue of sound in the oceans and its effects on marine mammals; and (3) interest from the oil industry to provide some much needed research funding in this area. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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