Ecosystems and the communities they support are changing at alarmingly rapid rates.
Tracking species diversity is vital to managing these stressed habitats. Yet, quantifying and …

Anthropogenic (man-made) noise has changed the acoustic environment both on land and
underwater and is now recognized as a pollutant of international concern. Increasing …

Many underwater bioacoustical recording experiments (eg, fish sound production during
courtship or agonistic encounters) are usually conducted in a controlled laboratory …

Sound communication is not unique to humans but rather is a trait shared with most non-
mammalian vertebrates. A practical way to address questions of vocal signal encoding has …

Many fishery biologists that are interested in documenting fish habitat and following the
movements and behavior of fishes use acoustic tags. Because over 700 fish species …

Coral reef fish communities often include hundreds of sympatric species which are of great
interest to reef conservation and fisheries managers. Long-term acoustic monitoring of fish …

There is limited knowledge of the orientation cues used by reef fish in their movement
among different habitats, especially those cues used during darkness. Although acoustic …

The soundscapes of the ocean have been underappreciated for far too long. The notion that
the sea was a silent world was conveyed early in the history of scuba diving (Cousteau & …

In addition to briefly reviewing sound-producing mechanisms, this chapter focuses on an
under-appreciated evolutionary process, exaptation, which could aid in understanding the …

Many fishes use sounds to communicate in a wide range of behavioral contexts. In
monitoring studies, these sounds can be used to detect and identify species. However …