The biological soundscape of temperate reefs in the Wadden sea.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring coastal marine habitats presents many challenges. Often, using multiple approaches to capture different aspects of ecosystems can strengthen the information gained regarding habitat status. The use of passive acoustics to document, describe, and monitor coastal habitats through soundscapes presents one such complementary technique. Marine soundscapes have not yet been described for the Wadden Sea; an ecosystem where reef habitats have experienced major changes over time due to various human-mediated impacts. Recordings at a subtidal shellfish reef and neighbouring sandflat at six 2-week periods over a 14 month period in 2021 and 2022 provide a first catalogue of biotic acoustic signatures in this ecosystem. Furthermore, recordings from two natural reef sites were compared to rec

SUBMITTER: Watson MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11914458 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature