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ArticleRoyal Society open science2021

A primer on rhythm quantification for fish sounds: a Mediterranean case study.

Lara S Burchardt, Marta Picciulin, Eric Parmentier, Marta Bolgan

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  1. Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026
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  2. Timescales of call variability in a South American treefrog.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026
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  5. Cetaceans are the next frontier for vocal rhythm research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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Lara S BurchardtMuseum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9210-7934
Marta PicciulinCa' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Eric ParmentierLaboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology (Freshwater and Oceanic sCience Unit of reSearch), Institut de Chimie B6c, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
Marta BolganLaboratory of Functional and Evolutionary Morphology (Freshwater and Oceanic sCience Unit of reSearch), Institut de Chimie B6c, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have used a lately established workflow to quantify rhythms of three fish sound types recorded in different areas of the Mediterranean Sea. So far, the temporal structure of fish sound sequences has only been described qualitatively. Here, we propose a standardized approach to quantify them, opening the path for assessment and comparison of an often underestimated but potentially critical aspect of fish sounds. Our approach is based on the analysis of inter-onset-intervals (IOIs), the intervals between the start of one sound element and the next. We calculate exact beats of a sequence using Fourier analysis and IOI analysis. Furthermore, we report on important parameters describing the variability in timing within a given sound sequence. Datasets were chosen to depict different possible rhythmic properties:

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acoustic communicationanimal communicationfish soundsPAMperiodicityrhythm analysis

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