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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Journal of Applied Ecology <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Accepted manuscript online: 17 APR 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#767676'><a
href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13161"><span style='color:#005274;
text-decoration:none'>https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13161</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#767676'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:0in;line-height:22.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C1D1E'>Guiding principles for assessing the impact
of underwater noise<o:p></o:p></span></h2>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.7pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Faulkner%2C+Rebecca+C"
id="a1_Ctrl"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Rebecca C.
Faulkner</span></a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Farcas%2C+Adrian"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Adrian Farcas</span></a><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><a
href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Merchant%2C+Nathan+D"><span
style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Nathan D. Merchant</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8B8B8B'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>

<h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:11.25pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:#414141'>Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></h3>

<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.75pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C1D1E'>Underwater
noise pollution poses a global threat to marine life and is a growing concern
for policy makers and environmental managers. Evidence is mounting of noise</span><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Cambria Math","serif";color:#1C1D1E'>$B!>(J</span><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1C1D1E'>induced
habitat loss, heightened physiological stress, masking of biologically
important sound (e.g. for communication, predator/prey detection), auditory
injury, and in extreme cases, direct or indirect mortality (Southall<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>et al</i>. 2007; Popper<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>et al</i>. 2014). Initial
studies focused on charismatic megafauna (particularly marine mammals), but in
recent years effects have been discovered in other taxa and at lower trophic
levels, including various fish species (Popper<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>et al</i>. 2014), functionally
important marine crustaceans (Solan<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>et al</i>.
2016), and zooplankton (McCauley<i>et al</i>. 2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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