ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Marine soundscape shaped by fishing activity.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The biological soundscape of temperate reefs in the Wadden sea.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Changes in maerl-associated macroalgal community dynamics as evidence of anthropogenic pressure.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Sensing ecosystem dynamics via audio source separation: A case study of marine soundscapes off northeastern Taiwan.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Hurricane impacts on a coral reef soundscape.PloS one · 2021Article
- Acoustic indexes for marine biodiversity trends and ecosystem health.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
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- Declining maerl vitality and habitat complexity across a dredging gradient: Insights from in situ sediment profile imagery (SPI).Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Marine communities face anthropogenic pressures that degrade ecosystems. Because underwater soundscapes carry information about habitat quality, we explored whether destructive impacts of fishing could be evaluated via the soundscape. Maerl beds are recognized as biodiversity hotspots and they experience major worldwide degradation owing to fishing. We collected field acoustic recordings in maerl beds exposed to different fishing practices. We found that unfished maerl beds were threefold louder and exhibited sound frequencies more diversified than those recorded in fished maerl beds. Analyses of associated fauna samples indicated that snapping shrimps provided a major contribution to the maerl bed soundscape. Moreover, sea urchins and squat lobsters most likely contributed to differences between the soundscapes of unfished and fished maerl beds. Our results supported the idea that the soundscape can provide valuable information on maerl bed ecosystem health related to fishing activity.
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