A5027633409- Marine animal studies overview
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Marine and fisheries research
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Noise Effects and Management
- Music and Audio Processing
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Music Technology and Sound Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Marine and environmental studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Scientific Research and Discoveries
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
University of Groningen
2023-2025
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2021-2024
University of California, San Diego
2021-2024
Leiden University
2014-2021
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
2014
Anthropogenic noise is a major pollutant in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Since the industrial revolution, human activities have become increasingly noisy, leading to both acute chronic disturbance of wide variety animals. Chronic exposure can affect animals over their lifespan, changes species interactions likely altering communities. However, community-level impacts are not well-understood, which impairs our ability for effective mitigation. In this review, we address effects on...
Soundscapes offer rich descriptions of composite acoustic environments. Characterizing marine soundscapes simply through sound levels results in incomplete descriptions, limits the understanding unique features, and impedes meaningful comparisons. Sources that contribute to level metrics shift time space with changes biological patterns, physical forces, human activity. The presence a constant or chronic source is often interwoven episodic sounds. Further, intensity sources can influence...
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 passive acoustics document, describe, and monitor through soundscapes one such complementary technique. Marine have not yet been described for Wadden Sea; an ecosystem where reef experienced major changes over time due various human-mediated impacts. Recordings at a subtidal shellfish...
Marine soundscapes provide the opportunity to non-invasively learn about, monitor, and conserve ecosystems. Some fishes produce sound in chorus, often association with mating, there is much about fish choruses species producing them. Manually analyzing years of acoustic data increasingly unfeasible, especially challenging as multiple can co-occur time frequency overlap vessel noise other transient sounds. This study proposes an unsupervised automated method, called SoundScape Learning (SSL),...
Anthropogenic noise in the oceans is disturbing marine life. Among other groups, pelagic fish are likely to be affected by sound from human activities, but so far have received relatively little attention. Offshore wind farms become numerous and will even more abundant next decades. Wind can interesting due food abundance or fisheries restrictions. At same time, construction of involves high levels anthropogenic noise, and/or deterring fish. Here, we investigated whether bottom-moored...
In today's marine habitats, anthropogenic noise is widespread in space and time, affecting aquatic animal communities. Short-term exposure to known affect vital behaviours, such as the ability evade predators. However, long-term pollution may lead differences short-term responses between naïve experienced animals. We investigated interaction sound on antipredator response of free-ranging sand gobies, Pomatoschistus minutus. tested effects boat playback a simulated predator strike areas...
The molluscan shell can be viewed as a petrified representation of the organism's ontogeny and thus used record changes in form during growth. However, little empirical data is available on actual growth shells, these are hard to quantify examine simultaneously. To address issues, we studied land snail that has an irregularly coiled heavily ornamented shell–Plectostoma concinnum. were collected natural experiment aperture quantified. We axis allows analysed Then, examined association between...
Foraging decisions of deep-diving cetaceans can provide fundamental insight into food web dynamics the deep pelagic ocean. Cetacean optimal foraging entails a tight balance between oxygen-conserving dive strategies and access to deep-dwelling prey sufficient energetic reward. Risso's dolphins ( Grampus griseus ) displayed thus far unknown strategy, which we termed spin dive. Dives started with intense stroking right-sided lateral rotation. This remarkable behaviour resulted in rapid descent....
Vocalisations form a key component of the social interactions and foraging behaviour toothed whales. We investigated changes in calling echolocation long-finned pilot whales between non-foraging periods, by combining acoustic recordings diving depth data from tagged individuals with concurrent surface observations on their group. The showed marked vocal variation, specific to context. During periods foraging, more activity than during (rest, travel). In addition expected increase activity,...
Abstract Rorqual foraging behavior varies with species, prey type and conditions, can be a determining factor for their fitness. Little is known about the ecology of Rice’s whales ( Balaenoptera ricei ), an endangered species population fewer than 100 individuals. Suction cup tags were attached to two collect information on diving kinematics behavior. The tagged primarily exhibited lunge-feeding near sea bottom lesser extent in water-column at surface. During 6–10 min dives, typically...
The United States of America’s Office National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) hosts 15 (NMS) and two Monuments in its waters. Charismatic marine megafauna, such as fin whales ( Balaenoptera physalus ), humpback Megaptera novaeangliae various delphinid species frequent these areas, but little is known about their occupancy. As part a national effort to better understand the soundscapes NMS, 22 near-continuous passive acoustic bottom mounted recorders one bottom-mounted cable hydrophone were...
In aggregations, some male fish will sing together in “chorus” for hours, to attract female mates. Through analyzing passive acoustic data, one can determine which, when, and where are chorusing, identify breeding grounds, species distributions, mating seasons. National marine sanctuaries aim protect ecosystems, particularly feeding grounds at risk species. the Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring project, a cumulative 17.9 years of data were manually analyzed chorusing Monterey Bay, Channel...
<title>Abstract</title> 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 passive acoustics document, describe, and monitor through soundscapes one such complementary technique. Habitats have distinct acoustic patterns, or soundscapes, as a result their specific features biological communities. Passive monitoring (PAM) lower impact,...
Abstract Aim This study investigates the biogeographic patterns of Pacific white‐sided dolphins ( Lagenorhynchus obliquidens ) in Eastern North based on long‐term passive acoustic records. We aim to elucidate ecological and behavioural significance distinct echolocation click types their implications for population delineation, geographic distribution, environmental adaptation management. Location Ocean. Time Period 2005–2021. Major Taxa Studied dolphin. Methods Over 50 cumulative years...
Group-living animals must communicate to stay in contact. In long-finned pilot whales, there is a trade-off between the benefits of foraging individually at depth and formation tight social groups surface. Using theoretical modelling empirical data tagged pairs within group, we examined potential whale calls reach dispersed group-members during periods. Both predictions tag showed for communication diving non-diving group members over separation distances up least 385 m (empirical) 1800...
Foraging is made up of three steps: first, to search and encounter a suitable foraging patch; next prey has be found, finally the caught eaten. Behavioral responses anthropogenic noise may lead disruption vital activities within this process, such as area avoidance, or reduced abilities locate catch prey. Gaining insight into these behavioral effects starts with thorough understanding within- between-individual variation in baseline behavior experimental conditions. In study, we analyzed...
ABSTRACT Chorusing is widespread across the animal kingdom. Animal calling behavior often driven by phenological and environmental factors such as seasonality, lunar period, temperature. Now, in Anthropocene, increased anthropogenic noise levels are also affecting behavior. Many fish call choruses to attract mates, but dynamics that drive have rarely been studied field. We investigated how ambient noise, temperature influenced of two species toadfish, plainfin midshipman ( Porichthys notatus...