Automatic detection, classification, and quantification of sciaenid fish calls in an estuarine soundscape in the Southeast United States.

ABSTRACT: In the Southeast USA, major contributors to estuarine soundscapes are the courtship calls produced by fish species belonging to the family Sciaenidae. Long-term monitoring of sciaenid courtship sounds may be valuable in understanding reproductive phenology, but this approach produces massive acoustic datasets. With this in mind, we designed a feature-based, signal detector for sciaenid fish calls and tested the efficacy of this detector against manually reviewed data. Acoustic recorders were deployed to collect sound samples for 2 min every 20 min at four stations in the May River estuary, South Carolina, USA from February to November, 2014. Manual analysis of acoustic files revealed that four fish species, belonging to the family Sciaenidae, were the major sound producers in this estuarin

SUBMITTER: Monczak A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6334970 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature