By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Ocean Studies Board, Committee on Characterizing Biologically Significant Marine Mammal Behavior
The NRC document includes a lot worthy details and a few very important innovations, yet there's a few language that's open to misinterpretation. for instance, the assertion that "[n]o clinical experiences have conclusively confirmed a hyperlink among publicity to sound and antagonistic results on a marine mammal inhabitants" might have extra appropriately mirrored the present kingdom of technology if it have been written "there is presently now not adequate identified approximately marine mammals or the affects of anthropogenic sound to conclusively display even if there's or isn't really a hyperlink among publicity to sound and adversarial results on a marine mammal population."
While the long term plan for administration of sub-lethal results proposed within the NRC file is an efficient one, the feedback for administration in the intervening time didn't consistently give some thought to cumulative and synergistic results, the context of publicity (e.g., if a specific animal was once extra susceptible, reminiscent of a calf), and the affects of covering (i.e., `drowning out' biologically very important sounds, akin to communication). The record additionally did not deal with the restrictions of hoping on self-reporting for saw takes, which even now can't comprise unseen mortalities, resembling a dolphin that falls free from a web after it has drowned.
A extra unique dialogue of the NRC document used to be released within the magazine of foreign flora and fauna legislations and coverage quantity nine, pages 91-99 in 2006.
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4 and 30 kHz respectively in beluga whales but not at the other tested frequency of 4 kHz. , 2002). Each of these experiments used different durations of fatiguing stimuli. When the sound pressure required to produce a TTS is plotted against the duration of the stimulus for all these experiments, the result is a line with a slope of -3 dB per doubling of stimulus duration, that is, a line showing that the TTS occurred at about an equal energy in all cases tested to date. Changes in hearing threshold, even TTSs, have the potential to affect population vital rates through increased predation or decreased foraging sources of individual animals that experience a TTS as they use sound for these tasks.
When the sound pressure required to produce a TTS is plotted against the duration of the stimulus for all these experiments, the result is a line with a slope of -3 dB per doubling of stimulus duration, that is, a line showing that the TTS occurred at about an equal energy in all cases tested to date. Changes in hearing threshold, even TTSs, have the potential to affect population vital rates through increased predation or decreased foraging sources of individual animals that experience a TTS as they use sound for these tasks.