Deterring effects of 8-45 kHz tone pulses on harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in a large pool     

Kastelein RA  van der Heul S  Terhune JM  Verboom WC  Triesscheijn RJ 《Marine environmental research》2006,62(5):356-373

The marine aquaculture industry suffers losses due to pinniped attacks which damage net enclosures and fish stocks. Acoustic harassment devices (AHDs) emit loud sounds which are intended to deter pinnipeds from approaching aquaculture enclosures. At present, many AHDs emit sounds in the 8-20 kHz frequency range. It is not known whether sounds of higher frequencies have a deterrent effect on seals. Therefore five captive harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) were subjected to four series of tone pulses together spanning a broad frequency range (8, 16, 32 and 45 kHz). Pulse duration was 250 ms and pulse interval was 5s. Each of the four sounds was made deterrent by increasing the amplitude. The seals reacted by swimming away from the sounds. The displacement effect of each sound was judged by comparing the animals' surface positions, and number of surfacings, during ten 45 min baseline periods with ten 45 min test periods per frequency (one frequency per day in rotation, 40 sessions in total). The seals were displaced by all four frequencies throughout the 40 trial days. The seals came to the surface more often when the test tones were produced than in the baseline periods. The initial displacement distances did not change over the 40 test days. This suggests that operating AHDs for only short periods will be more effective and less likely to result in habituation by the seals than operating them continuously. The discomfort threshold sound pressure level (SPL) was established for each of the four pulse frequencies. The acoustic discomfort threshold SPL is defined as the boundary SPL between the area that the animals generally occupied during the transmission of the sounds and the area that they generally did not enter during sound transmission. The discomfort threshold SPL may depend on the context.  相似文献   

Distribution of wave crests in a non-Gaussian sea   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Ronald W. Butler  Ulla B. Machado  Igor Rychlik 《Applied Ocean Research》2009,31(1):57-64

The sea elevation at a fixed point is modelled as a quadratic form of a vector valued Gaussian process with arbitrary mean. With this model, saddlepoint methods are used to approximate the mean upcrossing intensity with which the sea level crosses upwards at a certain height. This estimated intensity is further used to determine the probability distribution of wave crests. The use of saddlepoint technique is particularly important here because it can approximate the crest distribution without the need to perform simulations or use fitted distributions. Several numerical examples are given, including two with measured data. In the cases of real data, the results obtained with the saddlepoint technique are also compared with the results obtained with well known methods commonly used in the industry.  相似文献   

Crustal structure of the deepwater west Niger Delta passive margin from the interpretation of seismic reflection data     

Sepribo Eugene Briggs  Joe Cartwright  Richard J. Davies 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2009

The interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic reflection data complemented with gravity data allows the crustal architecture of the deepwater west Niger Delta passive margin to be defined. The data show that the area is underlain by oceanic crust that is characterised by a thickness of 5–7 km and by internal reflectivity consisting of both dipping and sub-horizontal reflectors. Some of the dipping reflections can be traced up to the top of the basement where they offset it across a series of minor to major thrust faults. Other internal reflections are attributed to extensional shear zones and possibly due to intrusions in the lower crust. The Moho can be correlated as a discrete reflection over >70% of the study area. It is generally smooth, but localised relief of up to 1 km is observed. The southeastern part of the study area is dominated by a zone of SW–NE striking basement thrusts.  相似文献   

The Natural History of Fossils by Chris Paul. Weidenfeld and Nicolson,London, 1980. Price: £15·00 (hardback); £6·95 (paperback), 292 pp     

Ronald K. Pickerill 《Geological Journal》1982,17(1):66-66

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Small-scale fluctuations in acoustic and physical properties in surficial carbonate sediments and their relationship to bioturbation   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

K. B. Briggs  M. D. Richardson 《Geo-Marine Letters》1997,17(4):306-315

 Measurements of physical and acoustic properties within the top 40 cm of sediment indicate that there are three classes of parameter variability relevant to acoustic bottom scattering at the Marquesas Keys and Dry Tortugas sites. The three classes of variability, spatially and temporally different in terms of scale, are generated by biological and physical processes acting on sediments. Interplay of bioturbation, trawling and storm events create fine laminations of sand–silt–clay and high gravel-size mollusk shell content at the Marquesas Keys site; the predominance of biological processes creates strong surficial gradients and lateral variability in sediment properties at the Dry Tortugas site.  相似文献   

Skeletal Biomineralization: Patterns,Processes and Evolutionary Trends,Volumes I,and II (Atlas & Index) edited by Joseph G. Carter,Van Nostrand Reinhold,New York, 1990. No. of pages: 832 (Vol. I); 101 + 200 plates (Vol. II). Price £65.00 (2 volume set). ISBN 0–442–00620-9 (Vol. I); 0–442–00666-7 (Vol. II)     

D. E. G. Briggs  M. J. Weedon 《Geological Journal》1992,27(1):92-93

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