title: Humans, Fish, and Whales: How Right Whales Modify Calling Behavior in Response to Shifting Background Noise Conditions.
abstract: This study investigates the role of behavioral plasticity in the variation of sound production of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) in response to changes in the ambient background noise conditions. Data were collected from southern right whales in Brazilian waters in October and November 2011. The goal of this study was to quantify differences in right whale vocalizations recorded in low background noise as a control, fish chorus noise, and vessel noise. Variation in call parameters were detected among the three background noise conditions and have implications for future studies of noise effects on whale sound production.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Syracuse University, 114 Life Sciences Complex, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA. sparks@syr.edu.
authors.forename: Susan E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Parks
authors.affiliation: Instituto Australis, Projeto Baleia Franca, Imbituba, 88780-000, Brazil. kgroch@terra.com.br.
authors.forename: Karina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Groch
authors.affiliation: Centro Mamíferos Aquáticos (CMA), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Aquáticos, ICMBio, MMA-CMA SC, Jurerê, Florianópolis, 88053-700, Brazil. paulo.flores@icmbio.gov.br.
authors.forename: Paulo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.affiliation: LaB, Laboratório de Bioacústica, Departamento de Fisiologia Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 59072-970, Brazil. sousalimarenata@gmail.com.|Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA. sousalimarenata@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Renata
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sousa-Lima
authors.affiliation: Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA. iru2@cornell.edu.
authors.forename: Ildar R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Urazghildiiev
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise; D014828:Vocalization, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D014907:Whales / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Eubalaena australis; Noise; Right whale; Vocal modification