Fish are one of the most highly utilised vertebrate taxa by humans; they are harvested from
wild stocks as part of global fishing industries, grown under intensive aquaculture …

The expansion of shipping and aquatic industrial activities in recent years has led to growing
concern about the effects of man-made sounds on aquatic life. Sources include (but are not …

1. Global-scale environmental degradation and its links with non-renewable fossil fuels have
led to an increasing interest in generating electricity from renewable energy resources …

Many marine fish and invertebrates show a dual life history where settled adults produce
dispersing larvae. The planktonic nature of the early larval stages suggests a passive …

A pelagic larval stage is found in nearly all demersal marine teleost fishes, and it is during
this pelagic stage that the geographic scale of dispersal is determined. Marine biologists …

The pelagic life history phase of reef fishes and decapod crustaceans is complex, and the
evolutionary drivers and ecological consequences of this life history strategy remain largely …

Despite spending weeks at sea as larvae, potentially scattered over many kilometers, young
coral reef fish find suitable settlement habitat and in some cases return to their natal reefs …

Free-swimming larvae of tropical corals go through a critical life-phase when they return
from the open ocean to select a suitable settlement substrate. During the planktonic phase of …

Coral reef fish larvae use sound to find suitable habitat during their vital settlement stage.
Yet boat noise, which can cause stress and avoidance behaviour, and may cause masking …

Human activities in and around waters generate a substantial amount of underwater noise,
which may negatively affect aquatic life including fish. In order to better predict and assess …