Defining the Transfer Functions of the PCAD Model in North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) - Retrospective Analyses of Existing Data

Abstract

Anthropogenic noise is known to cause both behavioral and physiological changes in marine mammals, but the potential for long-term population level effects is not known. The NRC (2005) Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance (PCAD) model provided a framework to trace the effects of acoustic disturbance through the life history of a marine mammal to its population status. In North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis), extensive data on hormone levels, health and body condition, and individual life history exists. Our long term goal was to analyze the links between hormones, visual assessments of health, and vital rates of right whales, enhance the modeling efforts on PCAD transfer functions and develop a theoretical framework for field studies on acoustic disturbance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2012
Accession Number
ADA573545

Entities

People

  • Rosalind M. Rolland
  • Scott D. Kraus

Organizations

  • New England Aquarium

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Classification
  • Data Sets
  • Death
  • Estrogens
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Hormones
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Metabolites
  • New England
  • Seasonal Variations
  • Statistics
  • Thyroid Hormones
  • Transfer Functions
  • Whales

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Mammal Biology