Search Results - "MILLER, PATRICK"
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Behavioral responses to predatory sounds predict sensitivity of cetaceans to anthropogenic noise within a soundscape of fear
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-03-2022)“…SignificanceAcoustic signals travel efficiently in the marine environment, allowing soniferous predators and prey to eavesdrop on each other. Our results with…”
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Body density of humpback whales (Megaptera novaengliae) in feeding aggregations estimated from hydrodynamic gliding performance
Published in PloS one (12-07-2018)“…Many baleen whales undertake annual fasting and feeding cycles, resulting in substantial changes in their body condition, an important factor affecting…”
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Understanding the combined effects of multiple stressors: A new perspective on a longstanding challenge
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-05-2022)“…Wildlife populations and their habitats are exposed to an expanding diversity and intensity of stressors caused by human activities, within the broader context…”
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The impact of green infrastructure on human health and well-being: The example of the Huckleberry Trail and the Heritage Community Park and Natural Area in Blacksburg, Virginia
Published in Sustainable cities and society (01-07-2019)“…•Higher visitor frequency and closer distance to the green infrastructure results in positive psychological benefits and place attachment.•Positive…”
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Red and Blue States of Mind: Partisan Hostility and Voting in the United States
Published in Political research quarterly (01-06-2015)“…Based on social comparison and social identity theory, we argue that average partisans in contemporary U.S. politics view elections as group competitions in…”
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Deep-Diving Foraging Behaviour of Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus)
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-05-2006)“…1. Digital tags were used to describe diving and vocal behaviour of sperm whales during 198 complete and partial foraging dives made by 37 individual sperm…”
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Call combination patterns in Icelandic killer whales (Orcinus orca)
Published in Scientific reports (08-12-2023)“…Acoustic sequences have been described in a range of species and in varying complexity. Cetaceans are known to produce complex song displays but these are…”
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Declining reproductive success in the Gulf of St. Lawrence’s humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) reflects ecosystem shifts on their feeding grounds
Published in Global change biology (01-03-2021)“…Climate change has resulted in physical and biological changes in the world's oceans. How the effects of these changes are buffered by top predator…”
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Beaked whales and state-dependent decision-making: how does body condition affect the trade-off between foraging and predator avoidance?
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (26-01-2022)“…Body condition is central to how animals balance foraging with predator avoidance-a trade-off that fundamentally affects animal fitness. Animals in poor…”
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University Regulation of Student Speech: In Search of a Unified Mode of Analysis
Published in Michigan law review (01-05-2018)“…Universities are meant to be open marketplaces of ideas. This requires a commitment to both freedom of expression and indusivity, two values that may conflict…”
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Northern bottlenose whales in a pristine environment respond strongly to close and distant navy sonar signals
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (27-03-2019)“…Impact assessments for sonar operations typically use received sound levels to predict behavioural disturbance in marine mammals. However, there are…”
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Understanding an Urban Park through Big Data
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (10-10-2019)“…To meet the needs of park users, planners and designers must know what park users want to do and how they want the park to offer different activities. Big data…”
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Pilot whales attracted to killer whale sounds: acoustically-mediated interspecific interactions in cetaceans
Published in PloS one (26-12-2012)“…In cetaceans' communities, interactions between individuals of different species are often observed in the wild. Yet, due to methodological and technical…”
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Eye-Tracking and Visual Preference: Maybe Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder?
Published in Land (Basel) (01-05-2024)“…The “Content-Identifying Methodology”, or CIM, is an approach developed by environmental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan to understand the landscape…”
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Using an omnidirectional video logger to observe the underwater life of marine animals: Humpback whale resting behaviour
Published in Behavioural processes (01-05-2021)“…•Typical video loggers capture only a limited area of the animal being monitored.•Omnidirectional video logger is a valuable tool for interpreting animal…”
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Aerial photogrammetry and tag-derived tissue density reveal patterns of lipid-store body condition of humpback whales on their feeding grounds
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (27-01-2021)“…Monitoring the body condition of free-ranging marine mammals at different life-history stages is essential to understand their ecology as they must accumulate…”
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High diving metabolic rate indicated by high-speed transit to depth in negatively buoyant long-finned pilot whales
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-10-2017)“…To maximize foraging duration at depth, diving mammals are expected to use the lowest cost optimal speed during descent and ascent transit and to minimize the…”
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Marine mammals and sonar: Dose-response studies, the risk-disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-01-2018)“…1. Marine mammals may be negatively affected by anthropogenic noise. Behavioural response studies (BRS) aim to establish a relationship between noise exposure…”
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Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (30-11-2022)“…Assessing cumulative effects of human activities on ecosystems is required by many jurisdictions, but current science cannot meet regulatory demands…”
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The Emotional Citizen: Emotion as a Function of Political Sophistication
Published in Political psychology (01-08-2011)“…Scholars and popular commentators have often stereotyped emotion as a tool that citizens use to reason about politics in place of hard fact and critical…”
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