ArticleNature communications2019
Acoustic enrichment can enhance fish community development on degraded coral reef habitat.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Marine and Freshwater Sounds Impact Invertebrate Behavior and Physiology: A Meta-Analysis.Global change biology · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of acoustic enrichment on settlement of a critically endangered broadcast spawning coral.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Multi-class, unsupervised detection and classification of biological and anthropogenic sounds in coral reefs.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Autonomous cameras reveal larval reef fish responses to acoustic enrichment and lunar phase.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Coral restoration alters reef soundscapes but machine learning and manual analyses suggest different recovery rates.PloS one · 2026Article
- Towards a systematic framework to assess restoration success of interventions in coral reef ecosystems.PloS one · 2026Article
- A control theory framework and in situ experimental platform for informing restoration of coral reefs.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Review
- Highlighting the resilience potential of marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching with passive acoustic monitoring.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Actively soniferous tropical reef fishes are diverse, vulnerable, and valuable.Journal of fish biology · 2025Review
- Shipping noise tolerance in invertebrates: A case study of the shore crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis.PloS one · 2025Article
- Soundscape analysis can be an effective tool in assessing seagrass restoration early success.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Anthropogenic noise disrupts acoustic cues for recruitment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Soundscape enrichment increases larval settlement rates for the brooding coralRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
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- Effects of Geometric Sound on Brainwave Activity Patterns, Autonomic Nervous System Markers, Emotional Response, and Faraday Wave Pattern Morphology.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2024Article
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- A roadmap to integrating resilience into the practice of coral reef restoration.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Acoustic restoration: Using soundscapes to benchmark and fast-track recovery of ecological communities.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of acoustic lures for increasing tropical forest understory bat captures.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Impact of noise on development, physiological stress and behavioural patterns in larval zebrafish.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Coral reefs worldwide are increasingly damaged by anthropogenic stressors, necessitating novel approaches for their management. Maintaining healthy fish communities counteracts reef degradation, but degraded reefs smell and sound less attractive to settlement-stage fishes than their healthy states. Here, using a six-week field experiment, we demonstrate that playback of healthy reef sound can increase fish settlement and retention to degraded habitat. We compare fish community development on acoustically enriched coral-rubble patch reefs with acoustically unmanipulated controls. Acoustic enrichment enhances fish community development across all major trophic guilds, with a doubling in overall abundance and 50% greater species richness. If combined with active habitat restoration and effective conservation measures, rebuilding fish communities in this manner might accelerate ecosystem recovery at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Acoustic enrichment shows promise as a novel tool for the active management of degraded coral reefs.
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