Enrico Pirotta

TL;DR: The implementation of this framework has moved the focus of discussion of the management of nonlethal disturbances on marine mammal populations away from a rhetorical debate about defining negligible impact and toward a quantitative understanding of long‐term population‐level effects, and its general applicability to other marine and terrestrial systems is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The results detail the noise levels currently experienced by a locally protected bottlenose dolphin population, explore the relationship between broadband sound exposure levels and the indicators proposed in response to the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and provide a ship noise assessment toolkit which can be applied in other coastal marine environments.

TL;DR: A detailed evaluation of sperm whale distribution and habitat use around the Balearic Islands using a novel analytical framework suggests that sperm whales do not use the region uni-formly and that topography plays a key role in shaping their distribution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used passive acoustic techniques to quantify how boat disturbance affected bottlenose dolphin foraging activity, and characterized the conditions influencing responses, finding that boat presence was associated with a short-term 49% reduction in foraging activities, but there was no relationship with noise level.

TL;DR: It is found that gannets do not adjust their behaviour in response to contemporaneous fronts, however, ARS was more likely to occur within spatially predictable, seasonally persistent frontal zones (GAMs), highlighting that frontal persistence is a crucial element of the formation of pelagic foraging hotspots for mobile marine vertebrates.