Marine dredging is an excavation activity carried out worldwide by many industries. Concern
about the impact dredging has on marine life, including marine mammals (cetaceans …

Baleen whales (mysticetes) use vocalizations to mediate their complex social and
reproductive behaviours in vast, opaque marine environments. Adapting to an obligate …

Creating a baseline understanding of communicative signals and perceptual abilities is
imperative for gaining insight into a species' life history. This is especially relevant for at-risk …

Compared with our cousins on the Tree of Life, humans are poor listeners. 1 Below the
lower end of human hearing lies deep infrasound: the realm of thunder and tornadoes …

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is increasingly being adopted as a non-invasive method
for the assessment of ocean ecological dynamics. PAM is an important sampling approach …

The Arctic has been a refuge from anthropogenic underwater noise; however, climate
change has caused summer sea ice to diminish, allowing for unprecedented access and the …

Group choruses of marine animals can produce extraordinarily loud sounds that markedly
elevate levels of the ambient soundscape. We investigated sound production in the Gulf …

The Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, is warming rapidly, resulting in environmental change
that is likely already affecting the underwater soundscape, a critical habitat feature for …

The soundscape is an important habitat feature for marine animals, and climate change may
cause large changes to the Arctic marine soundscape through sea ice loss and increased …

Ocean ambient noise is a crucial habitat feature for marine animals because it represents
the lower threshold of their acoustically active space. Ambient noise is affected by noise from …