Ontogenetic variation in the hearing sensitivity of black sea bass (<i>Centropristis striata</i>) and the implications of anthropogenic sound on behavior and communication

Stanley, Jenni A.; Caiger, Paul E.; Phelan, Beth; Shelledy, Katharine; Mooney, T. Aran; Parijs, Sofie M. Van

doi:10.1242/jeb.219683

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“…Black sea bass support key commercial and recreational fisheries in the MAB shelf system and in regions slated for aggressive wind energy development. Indeed, black sea bass have been established as a model species for understanding wind energy impacts [ 74 , 75 ], and as a priority species, wind farm and fishing impacts must be assessed against natural storm disturbances. Wind tower construction and maintenance will occur during periods and in regions influenced by natural storm disturbances.…”

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“…Wind tower construction and maintenance will occur during periods and in regions influenced by natural storm disturbances. Stresses related to wind tower construction include sound caused by piledriving or vessel operation [75][76][77][78][79], alterations to local electromagnetic fields [80,81]; or, altered distribution of local benthic and demersal species through the emplacement of additional structured habitat [82][83][84]. Each of these stresses can interact with storm disturbance, obscuring or enhancing impacts associated with wind tower construction alone.…”

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The recurring impact of storm disturbance on black sea bass (Centropristis striata) movement behaviors in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

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Storm events are a significant source of disturbance in the Middle Atlantic Bight, in the Northwest Atlantic, that cause rapid destratification of the water column during the late summer and early fall. Storm-driven mixing can be considered as a seasonal disturbance regime to demersal communities, characterized by the recurrence of large changes in bottom water temperatures. Black sea bass are a model ubiquitous demersal species in the Middle Atlantic Bight, as their predominantly sedentary behavior makes them ideal for tagging studies while also regularly exposing them to summer storm disturbances and the physiological stresses associated with thermal destratification. To better understand the responsiveness of black sea bass to storm impacts, we coupled biotelemetry with a high-resolution Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM). During the summers of 2016–2018, 8–15 black sea bass were released each year with acoustic transponders at three reef sites, which were surrounded by data-logging receivers. Data were analyzed for activity levels and reef departures of black sea bass, and fluctuations in temperature, current velocity, and turbulent kinetic energy. Movement rates were depressed with each consecutive passing storm, and late-season storms were associated with permanent evacuations by a subset of tagged fish. Serial increases in bottom temperature associated with repeated storm events were identified as the primary depressor of local movement. Storm-driven increases in turbulent kinetic energy and current velocity had comparatively smaller, albeit significant, effects. Black sea bass represents both an important fishery resource and an indicator species for the impact of offshore wind development in the United States. Their availability to fisheries surveys and sensitivity to wind turbine impacts will be biased during periods of high storm activity, which is likely to increase with regional climate change.

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The recurring impact of storm disturbance on black sea bass (Centropristis striata) movement behaviors in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

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“…The SoundTrap recorder was set to the low setting (sensitivity −185.4 dB re 1 V µPa −1 ), and the LS1 recorder (sensitivity −180.0 dB re 1 V µPa −1 ) was deployed with a gain of 2.05 dB re 1 µPa. Ambient sound pressure levels (root-mean-square) were calculated for each site using a custom script in MATLAB (version 2020a) within the expected hearing range of black sea bass (Stanley et al 2020; frequency range 100 Hz-1 kHz) and the full broadband frequency range (10 Hz-24 kHz). The acoustic recorders were recovered on 30 October 2019, but owing to battery limitations, records were only available until 6 September 2019 at Site 1 and until 13 August 2019 at Site 2.…”

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Diurnal vertical movements in black sea bass (Centropristis striata): Endogenous, facultative, or something else?

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Fishes commonly exhibit diel rhythms in movements with consequences to feeding, reproduction, predator evasion, and resting. Such behaviors are conceived as plastic, persisting for phases (days to weeks), and then becoming disrupted, masked, and altered by changed environmental or ecological conditions. In telemetered black sea bass Centropristis striata (family Serranidae), we documented a remarkable 4-month record of persistent diurnal vertical movements. Within the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight June-October 2019 setting, biotelemetry data of 31 fish were examined through time series analysis and generalized additive modeling. Sun altitude played a dominant role throughout the series, where movements were diurnal. Thermal conditions were uniform until a September hurricane caused a 10°C rise in inhabited waters within the span of six hours, the result of water column mixing. This and other storms caused short-term disruptions (<2 d) to diel rhythmicity. Daytime vessel traffic, but not dolphin presence, caused ≤1 h refuge-seeking excursions. The discovery of pelagic behaviors (up to 15 m off the seabed) requires revision to the species' natural history, which was previously conceived as exclusively demersal. Spring-autumn movement functions included reef recruitment and evacuation, courtship and spawning, and seasonal changes in feeding ecology and predator fields. Throughout these phases, the cycle of daytime movement and nighttime inactivity persisted. We hypothesize that during the nocturnal period these visual specialists become immobile and thus evade predation and mobilize energy toward growth, reproduction, and storage. Because this function does not change from spring through autumn, we speculate that nocturnal quiescence serves as the proximate control for the diurnal activity cycle.

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“…The experimental setup, recording, and calibration procedures were similar to those of (Stanley et al, 2020), and are described in detail in Appendix B (Supplementary Info). Briefly, fish were anesthetized in a dilute solution of 100% clove oil (0.25 mL clove oil : 1 L seawater) to reduce large muscular movements.…”

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“…Some fish species have improved hearing from juveniles to adults and with increasing size (Wright et al, 2011). Others have decreased sound sensitivity at larger sizes and later ontogenetic stages, although these changes may be non-linear (Salas et al, 2018;Stanley et al, 2020). To summarize, for more complete and accurate comparisons of invertebrate and fish hearing abilities with particle motion soundscape data, we need more detailed understanding of hearing mechanisms including directional, frequency, and temporal filtering, more measurements of behavioral responses to ecologically realistic stimuli, and more studies testing hearing of multiple life stages of given species.…”

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Assessing anthropogenic noise impacts and relevant soundscape cues for marine invertebrates: leveraging squid and coral reefs as model systems

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Sound is utilized by marine animal taxa for many ecologically important functions, and these taxa are vulnerable to adverse effects of anthropogenic noise on hearing and behavior. However, little is known about marine invertebrates’ responses to anthropogenic noise, and the ambient environmental sounds (“soundscapes”) they detect and respond to. Most acoustic studies report sound pressure (detected by mammals and some fish), but few report particle motion, the back-and-forth vibratory component of sound detected by marine invertebrates. I investigated invertebrate use of and response to sounds in two facets: 1) behavioral responses of longfin squid, Doryteuthis pealeii to anthropogenic noise, and 2) particle motion of coral reef soundscapes in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In laboratory-based experiments I exposed D. pealeii to construction noise originally recorded from an offshore wind farm. I found significant increases in squids’ alarm responses and in failed prey capture attempts during noise. Conversely, noise exposure had no significant effects on reproductive behaviors of groups of D. pealeii, indicating high motivation of these squid to reproduce during this stressor. Collectively, these experiments revealed the importance of considering behavioral context in studies and regulatory decisions regarding invertebrates’ susceptibility to anthropogenic noise impacts. In studying coral reef soundscapes, I reported particle motion trends over several months for coral reefs varying in habitat quality, including coral cover and fish abundance. I found acoustic properties over which particle motion closely scaled with pressure, and others over which it did not. I compared soundscape data with particle motion hearing thresholds, and found that invertebrates may only detect high amplitude and low frequency transient sound cues on reefs, such as those produced by fishes. My research bring new insights on natural and anthropogenic sound cues detectable by marine invertebrates, and how and when invertebrates will be vulnerable to anthropogenic noise pollution.

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Ontogenetic variation in the hearing sensitivity of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) and the implications of anthropogenic sound on behavior and communication

Cited by 16 publications

References 66 publications

The recurring impact of storm disturbance on black sea bass (Centropristis striata) movement behaviors in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

The recurring impact of storm disturbance on black sea bass (Centropristis striata) movement behaviors in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

Diurnal vertical movements in black sea bass (Centropristis striata): Endogenous, facultative, or something else?

Assessing anthropogenic noise impacts and relevant soundscape cues for marine invertebrates: leveraging squid and coral reefs as model systems

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