Fish chorus and vessel noise in a marine protected coastal reef vary with lunar phase

Borie, Alfredo; Rezende, Sergio Magalhães; Ferreira, Beatrice P.; Maida, Mauro; Travassos, Paulo

doi:10.1007/s10641-022-01267-z

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“…Increased light conditions from the moon facilitate multimodal communication, but also increase susceptibility to predation (Dickerson et al 2023). This trade-off leads some fish species to call more close to full moon (Mccauley 2012;Borie-Mojica et al 2022), while others restrict their calling to periods with little lunar illumination (Mooney et al 2016;Parsons et al 2016;Koenig et al 2017;Kaplan et al 2018). This can even vary within species.…”

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“…Another factor that influences calling activity in both terrestrial and marine animals is the lunar cycle (Staaterman et al 2014). Some fish species call more during new moon nights, and cease activity during full moon nights (Parsons et al 2016;Kaplan et al 2018), while others increase acoustic activity during full moon nights (Stanley et al 2020;Borie-Mojica et al 2022) or other specific lunar periods, which can be site or species specific (Mann et al 2010;Rowell et al 2015). In birds, the lunar cycle affects chorus onset time: birds called earlier on mornings when the moon had been in the third quarter or full and was still present above the horizon at dawn (Bruni et al 2014).…”

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Impact of environmental factors on calling behavior in midshipman fish across ocean basins

Kok

Kim

Rowell

et al. 2023

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Chorusing is widespread across the animal kingdom. Animal calling behavior is often driven by phenological and environmental factors such as seasonality, lunar period, and temperature. Now, in the Anthropocene, factors such as increased anthropogenic noise levels are also affecting calling behavior. Many fish call in choruses to attract mates, but the dynamics that drive fish calling behavior have rarely been studied in the field. We investigated how seasonality, lunar period, ambient noise, and temperature influenced the calling behavior of two species of toadfish, the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus) and putatively, the Atlantic midshipman (Porichthys plectrodon). Acoustic recordings from a two-year period in eight different locations, spanning two ocean basins showed that midshipman chorus presence was driven by seasonality and lunar period. Furthermore, chorus frequency increased with increasing temperature. Chorus levels were strongly influenced by seasonality and increased somewhat with increasing noise levels. Taken together, these results indicate that midshipman calling behavior was strongly influenced by interacting environmental conditions. Understanding the various impacts of each driver will facilitate predictions of changes in midshipman calling due to future changes in environmental conditions.

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Section: Temporal Patternsmentioning

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Impact of environmental factors on calling behavior in midshipman fish across ocean basins

Kok

Kim

Rowell

et al. 2023

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Characterization and temporal patterns of red hind grouper, Epinephelus guttatus, choruses at a single aggregation site over a 10-year period

Appeldoorn-Sanders,

Zayas-Santiago,

Schärer-Umpierre

2023

Environ Biol Fish

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Fish chorus variation in a tropical estuarine environment

Bittencourt,

Barbosa,

Fernandes

et al. 2023

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Fish choruses are still understudied in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Temporal and spatial variation of fish choruses at two sites inside Guanabara Bay were investigated between 2021 and 2022; one sampling site was in a Marine Protected Area (MPA), and the other was in a rocky environment closer to vessel trafficking areas. Acoustic recordings were performed on 17 sampling occasions of 24 h, coupled to a temperature data logger. Long-term spectral averages were employed to determine choruses' start, end, and peak times, and third-octave levels were used to characterize spectral characteristics. Fish sounds were also analyzed and investigated with a principal components analysis. Choruses in the MPA lasted, on average, 4.5 h and had a peak frequency of 547.2 ± 226.6 kHz with a peak level of 104.6 ± 8.7 dB re 1 μPa. In contrast, the rocky site choruses lasted 5.5 h on average and had a peak frequency of 371.7 ± 131.0 Hz with a peak level of 113.4 ± 4.0 dB re 1 μPa. Chorus peak frequency was positively correlated to temperature (r = 0.4). Different types of fish sounds were identified, with some acoustics parameters varying between sites. Results indicate more than one chorusing species that may react to different factors.

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Fish chorus and vessel noise in a marine protected coastal reef vary with lunar phase

Cited by 3 publications

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Impact of environmental factors on calling behavior in midshipman fish across ocean basins

Impact of environmental factors on calling behavior in midshipman fish across ocean basins

Characterization and temporal patterns of red hind grouper, Epinephelus guttatus, choruses at a single aggregation site over a 10-year period

Fish chorus variation in a tropical estuarine environment

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