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ArticleScientific reports2017

Patterns of biophonic periodicity on coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef.

Jamie N McWilliam, Robert D McCauley, Christine Erbe, Miles J G Parsons

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jamie N McWilliamCentre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6845, Australia. mcwilliamjamie@gmail.com.
Robert D McCauleyCentre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6845, Australia.
Christine ErbeCentre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6845, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7884-9907
Miles J G ParsonsCentre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6845, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coral reefs surrounding Lizard Island in the Great Barrier Reef have a diverse soundscape that contains an array of bioacoustic phenomena, notably choruses produced by fishes. Six fish choruses identified around Lizard Island exhibited distinctive spatial and temporal patterns from 2014 to 2016. Several choruses displayed site fidelity, indicating that particular sites may represent important habitat for fish species, such as fish spawning aggregations sites. The choruses displayed a broad range of periodicities, from diel to annual, which provides new insights into the ecology of vocalising reef fish species and the surrounding ecosystem. All choruses were affected by one or more environmental variables including temperature and moonlight, the latter of which had a significant influence on the timing and received sound levels. These findings highlight the utility of passive acoustic tools for long-term monitoring and management of coral reefs, which is highly relevant in light of recent global disturbance events, particularly coral bleaching.

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Coral ReefsFishesVocalization, AnimalAnimalsAustraliaLightMoonOceans and SeasPeriodicityReproductionSpatio-Temporal AnalysisTemperature

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PMID29234024
PMCPMC5727085

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