TY - JOUR
TI - Testing the acoustic tolerance of harbour porpoise hearing for impulsive sounds
AU - Lucke, K
AU - Lepper, P
AU - Blanchet, M
AU - Siebert, U
T2 - The International Journal of Animal Sound and its Recording
AB - The planned construction of offshore wind turbines in the North and Baltic Seas involves the emission of high numbers of intense impulsive sounds when turbine foundations are driver into the ground by pile driving. Based on knowledge about other odontocete cetaceans (Finneran et at. 2020), it can be assumed that the source levels, which will on average exceed 225 dB re 1 uPa at 1 m, bear a risk at least for temporary threshold shift (TTS) in the auditory system of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena that inhabit these waters. In order to base the definition of noise-exposure criteria on information on the acoustic tolerance of this species to single impulses, an auditory study was conducted.
DA - 2012/04//
PY - 2012
VL - 17
IS - 1-3
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09524622.2008.9753865
DO - 10.1080/09524622.2008.9753865
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Noise
KW - Marine Mammals
KW - Cetaceans
ER -