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(a) An illustration of the biodiversity in the wind farm region, with at least three marine taxa that can both produce and sense sounds: snapping shrimp, fishes, and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins. (b) The predicted impact zone of pile driving noise for fish, where the SELss values are higher than the fish safety threshold of 181.74 dB. The predicted (c) temporary and (d) permanent threshold shift zones of pile driving noise for the Indo-pacific humpback dolphin, where the SELw_cum values are higher than the safety threshold of 170 and 185 dB respectively.

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Zhongchang Song

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