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A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans

1. The assessment of behavioural disturbance in cetacean species (e.g. resulting from exposure to anthropogenic sources such as military sonar, seismic surveys, or pile driving) is important for effective conservation and management. Disturbance effects can be informed by Behavioural Response Studie...

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Autores principales: Booth, Cormac G., Brannan, Naomi, Dunlop, Rebecca, Friedlander, Ari, Isojunno, Saana, Miller, Patrick, Quick, Nicola, Southall, Brandon, Pirotta, Enrico
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9804311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35895847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13787
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author Booth, Cormac G.
Brannan, Naomi
Dunlop, Rebecca
Friedlander, Ari
Isojunno, Saana
Miller, Patrick
Quick, Nicola
Southall, Brandon
Pirotta, Enrico
author_facet Booth, Cormac G.
Brannan, Naomi
Dunlop, Rebecca
Friedlander, Ari
Isojunno, Saana
Miller, Patrick
Quick, Nicola
Southall, Brandon
Pirotta, Enrico
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description 1. The assessment of behavioural disturbance in cetacean species (e.g. resulting from exposure to anthropogenic sources such as military sonar, seismic surveys, or pile driving) is important for effective conservation and management. Disturbance effects can be informed by Behavioural Response Studies (BRSs), involving either controlled exposure experiments (CEEs) where noise exposure conditions are presented deliberately to meet experimental objectives or in opportunistic contexts where ongoing activities are monitored in a strategic manner. In either context, animal‐borne sensors or in situ observations can provide information on individual exposure and disturbance responses. 2. The past 15 years of research have greatly expanded our understanding of behavioural responses to noise, including hundreds of experiments in nearly a dozen cetacean species. Many papers note limited sample sizes, required knowledge of baseline behaviour prior to exposure and the importance of contextual factors modulating behavioural responses, all of which in combination can lead to sampling biases, even for well‐designed research programs. 3. It is critical to understand these biases to robustly identify responses. This ensures outcomes of BRSs help inform predictions of how anthropogenic disturbance impacts individuals and populations. Our approach leverages concepts from the animal behaviour literature focused on helping to avoid sampling bias by considering what shapes an animal's response. These factors include social, experience, genetic and natural changes in responsiveness. 4. We developed and applied a modified version of this framework to synthesise current knowledge on cetacean response in the context of effects observed across marine and terrestrial taxa. This new ‘Sampling, Exposure, Receptor’ framework (SERF) identifies 43 modulating factors, highlights potential biases, and assesses how these vary across selected focal species. 5. In contrast to studies that identified variation in ‘Exposure’ factors as a key concern, our analysis indicated that factors relating to ‘Sampling’ (e.g. deploying tags on less evasive individuals, which biases selection of subjects), and ‘Receptor’ (e.g. health status or coping style) have the greatest potential for weakening the desired broad representativeness of BRSs. Our assessment also highlights how potential biases could be addressed with existing datasets or future developments.
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spelling pubmed-98043112023-01-03 A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans Booth, Cormac G. Brannan, Naomi Dunlop, Rebecca Friedlander, Ari Isojunno, Saana Miller, Patrick Quick, Nicola Southall, Brandon Pirotta, Enrico J Anim Ecol Concept 1. The assessment of behavioural disturbance in cetacean species (e.g. resulting from exposure to anthropogenic sources such as military sonar, seismic surveys, or pile driving) is important for effective conservation and management. Disturbance effects can be informed by Behavioural Response Studies (BRSs), involving either controlled exposure experiments (CEEs) where noise exposure conditions are presented deliberately to meet experimental objectives or in opportunistic contexts where ongoing activities are monitored in a strategic manner. In either context, animal‐borne sensors or in situ observations can provide information on individual exposure and disturbance responses. 2. The past 15 years of research have greatly expanded our understanding of behavioural responses to noise, including hundreds of experiments in nearly a dozen cetacean species. Many papers note limited sample sizes, required knowledge of baseline behaviour prior to exposure and the importance of contextual factors modulating behavioural responses, all of which in combination can lead to sampling biases, even for well‐designed research programs. 3. It is critical to understand these biases to robustly identify responses. This ensures outcomes of BRSs help inform predictions of how anthropogenic disturbance impacts individuals and populations. Our approach leverages concepts from the animal behaviour literature focused on helping to avoid sampling bias by considering what shapes an animal's response. These factors include social, experience, genetic and natural changes in responsiveness. 4. We developed and applied a modified version of this framework to synthesise current knowledge on cetacean response in the context of effects observed across marine and terrestrial taxa. This new ‘Sampling, Exposure, Receptor’ framework (SERF) identifies 43 modulating factors, highlights potential biases, and assesses how these vary across selected focal species. 5. In contrast to studies that identified variation in ‘Exposure’ factors as a key concern, our analysis indicated that factors relating to ‘Sampling’ (e.g. deploying tags on less evasive individuals, which biases selection of subjects), and ‘Receptor’ (e.g. health status or coping style) have the greatest potential for weakening the desired broad representativeness of BRSs. Our assessment also highlights how potential biases could be addressed with existing datasets or future developments. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-08-09 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9804311/ /pubmed/35895847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13787 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Miller, Patrick
Quick, Nicola
Southall, Brandon
Pirotta, Enrico
A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans
title A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans
title_full A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans
title_fullStr A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans
title_full_unstemmed A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans
title_short A sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans
title_sort sampling, exposure and receptor framework for identifying factors that modulate behavioural responses to disturbance in cetaceans
topic Concept
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9804311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35895847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13787
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