Evaluating the potential disturbance from dolphin watching in Lovina, north Bali, Indonesia

Mustika, Putu Liza Kusuma; Birtles, Alastair; Everingham, Yvette; Marsh, Helene

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“…These charismatic and abundant species could potentially be the basis for ecotourism activities. Cetacean-watching can have great value if conducted in a responsible manner to avoid negative impacts on the animals (Mustika et al, 2015a). Generating economic value for local inhabitants will help to motivate them to protect the marine communities.…”

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Using Cost-Effective Surveys From Platforms of Opportunity to Assess Cetacean Occurrence Patterns for Marine Park Management in the Heart of the Coral Triangle

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Using Cost-Effective Surveys From Platforms of Opportunity to Assess Cetacean Occurrence Patterns for Marine Park Management in the Heart of the Coral Triangle

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“…This state is easily recognized by the predictable, coordinated, synchronous slow swimming of tight groups, lack of aerial displays, coordinated breathing patterns with short surface intervals and very little acoustic communication [21]. The accessibility and the predictable occurrence of dolphin schools have favoured the establishment of dolphin watching and swim-with operations in spinner dolphin resting areas at several locations, including Hawai'i [21,[23][24][25], French Polynesia [26], Indonesia [27], Fiji [28], Mauritius [29] and Egypt [30]. At some of these tourist locations, spinner dolphins have been observed to interrupt and reduce rest in the presence of tourists [23,31,32].…”

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Behavioural responses of spinner dolphins to human interactions

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There is increasing evidence that whale and dolphin watching activities have detrimental effects on targeted cetacean populations. In Egypt, spinner dolphins regularly occur in the resting areas of Samadai, Satayah and Qubbat'Isa reefs. In-water human interactions with dolphins are regulated with a time-area closure system at Samadai, unregulated at Satayah and non-existent at Qubbat'Isa. This provided an ideal experimental setting to advance our understanding of the effects of tourism on a species highly sensitive to disturbances. Our study confirmed that the intensity and duration of interactions, and therefore, dolphin exposure to tourism, differed among the study sites. Compared with the Qubbat'Isa control site, behavioural reactions to boats and swimmers at the two tourism sites suggested that dolphin rest was disrupted, especially around the middle of the day and especially at Satayah, where dolphin tourism is unregulated. Our results indicate also that the dolphin protection measures at Samadai reduce the level of disturbance. We recommend that similar measures be implemented at other dolphin tourism locations, and that no new operations be initiated until the long-term impacts on dolphin populations are better understood. Our experience emphasizes the need to adopt precautionary approaches in research and management of whale and dolphin watching.

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“…), including the increase in the occurrence of recreational motorized vessels (Buckstaff ), recreational fishing (Powell and Wells ), dolphin watching (Mustika et al . ) and swim‐with‐dolphin tourism (Peters et al . ) over the last two decades (McCarty , O'Connor et al .…”

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“…Besides, these disturbances have widely been shown to impact a range of marine mammal species (Lessage et al 1999;Williams et al 2002aWilliams et al , b, 2006Scheidat et al 2004;Patenaude et al 2006;Hodgson and Marsh 2007;Brandt et al 2011;Andersen et al 2012;Thompson et al 2013;Isojunno and Miller 2015;Mathews et al 2016). These issues are particularly relevant for marine mammals inhabiting urbanized coastal areas that have increasingly been exposed to a variety of potential human disturbances (Kelly et al 2004), including the increase in the occurrence of recreational motorized vessels (Buckstaff 2006), recreational fishing (Powell and Wells 2010), dolphin watching (Mustika et al 2015) and swimwith-dolphin tourism (Peters et al 2013) over the last two decades (McCarty 2004, O'Connor et al 2009).…”

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Fractal analysis provides new insights into the complexity of marine mammal behavior: A review, two methods, their application to diving and surfacing patterns, and their relevance to marine mammal welfare assessment

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2017

Marine Mammal Science

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Fractals have been applied to describe the complexity of behavioral displays in a range of organisms. Recent work suggests that they may represent a promising tool in the quantification of subtle behavioral responses in marine mammals under chronic exposure to disturbance. This paper aims at introducing the still seldom used fractals to the broader community of marine mammal scientists. We first briefly rehearse some of the fundamental principles behind fractal theory and review the previous uses of fractals in marine mammal science. We subsequently introduce two methods that may be used to assess the complexity of marine mammal diving patterns, and we apply them to the temporal dynamics of the diving patterns of killer whales in the presence and absence of sea kayaks, the sequential behavior of harbor and gray seals in environments with distinct levels of anthropogenic influence, and southern right whales with and without calves. We discuss the ecological relevance of identifying fractal properties in marine mammal behavior, and the potential strength of the fractal behavioral parameters in comparison to more standard behavioral metrics. We finally briefly address the relevance fractal methods may have for the design and implementation of management and conservation strategies.

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Evaluating the potential disturbance from dolphin watching in Lovina, north Bali, Indonesia

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Using Cost-Effective Surveys From Platforms of Opportunity to Assess Cetacean Occurrence Patterns for Marine Park Management in the Heart of the Coral Triangle

Using Cost-Effective Surveys From Platforms of Opportunity to Assess Cetacean Occurrence Patterns for Marine Park Management in the Heart of the Coral Triangle

Behavioural responses of spinner dolphins to human interactions

Fractal analysis provides new insights into the complexity of marine mammal behavior: A review, two methods, their application to diving and surfacing patterns, and their relevance to marine mammal welfare assessment

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