Vessel noise prior to pile driving at offshore windfarm sites deters harbour porpoises from potential injury zones

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Acknowledgements We thank the BOWL and MOWEL teams for facilitating fieldwork and data collection during windfarm construction and providing details of the construction programmes. We also thank the members of MFRAG for their participation in a workshop dedicated to the last section of the discussion and for their valuable advice. We finally thank the two reviewers for their constructive comments.Peer reviewe