Politecnico di Milano, University of Technology, DIIAR Environmental Engineering Division, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, Milano, Italy.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2011;63(1-4):56-70. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.01.003. Epub 2011 Feb 24.
Recent observations of cetacean mass strandings, coincident with anthropogenic sounds emissions, have raised concerns on the potential environmental impact of underwater noise. Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) was reported in all the cited stranding events. Within the NATO Marine Mammal Risk Mitigation project (MMRM), multiple interdisciplinary sea trials have been conducted in the Mediterranean Sea with the objective of developing tools and procedures to mitigate the impact of underwater sound emissions. During these cruises, visual observations, passive acoustic detections and environmental data were collected. The aim of this study was to evaluate "a priori" predictions of Cuvier's beaked whale presence in the Alboran Sea, using models developed in the Ligurian Sea that employ bathymetric and chlorophyll features as predictors. The accuracy of these predictions was found adequate and elements are given to account for the uncertainties associated to the use of models developed in areas different from their calibration site.
最近观察到的鲸类大规模搁浅事件与人为噪音排放同时发生，这引起了人们对水下噪音潜在环境影响的关注。在所有引用的搁浅事件中都报告了喙鲸（Ziphius cavirostris）的存在。在北约海洋哺乳动物风险缓解项目（MMRM）中，在地中海进行了多次跨学科海上试验，旨在开发工具和程序来减轻水下声音排放的影响。在这些巡航中，收集了视觉观察、被动声学探测和环境数据。本研究的目的是使用在利古里亚海开发的模型，根据水深和叶绿素特征作为预测因子，评估在阿尔沃兰海“先验”预测喙鲸存在的情况。研究发现，这些预测的准确性是足够的，并给出了一些因素来考虑在与校准地点不同的区域使用模型所带来的不确定性。
