Assessing the non-lethal effects of disturbance from human activities is necessary for wildlife
conservation and management. However, linking short-term responses to long-term impacts …

The Protocol on Environmental Protection of the Antarctic Treaty stipulates that the
protection of the Antarctic environment and associated ecosystems be fundamentally …

Accurate knowledge of behavior is necessary to effectively manage the effects of human
activities on wildlife, including vessel-based whale-watching. Yet, the wholly aquatic nature …

Inshore marine habitats experience considerable anthropogenic pressure, as this is where
many adverse effects of human activities concentrate. In the rapidly-changing seascape of …

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly used in conservation practices, eg, to
prevent poaching or inventory wildlife. Another area of application is using AI to decode …

Construction in the southern New England wind energy area (WEA), a large-scale offshore
wind farm on the east coast of the United States, started in June 2023. Baseline data was …

In 2018, the giant manta ray was listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species
Act. We integrated decades of sightings and survey effort data from multiple sources in a …

Offshore activities elevate ambient sound levels at sea, which may affect marine fauna. We
reviewed the literature about impact of airgun acoustic exposure on fish in terms of damage …

Bioenergetic approaches are increasingly used to understand how marine mammal
populations could be affected by a changing and disturbed aquatic environment. There …

Anthropogenic underwater noise may negatively affect marine animals. Yet, while fishes are
highly sensitive to sounds, effects of acoustic disturbances on fishes have not been …