dc.contributor.author | Simpson, SD | |
dc.contributor.author | Radford, AN | |
dc.contributor.author | Tickle, EJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Meekan, MG | |
dc.contributor.author | Jeffs, AG | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-15T10:10:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-02-04 | |
dc.description.abstract | Auditory information is widely used throughout the animal kingdom in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Some marine species are dependent on reefs for adult survival and reproduction, and are known to use reef noise to guide orientation towards suitable habitat. Many others that forage in food-rich inshore waters would, however, benefit from avoiding the high density of predators resident on reefs, but nothing is known about whether acoustic cues are used in this context. By analysing a sample of nearly 700,000 crustaceans, caught during experimental playbacks in light traps in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, we demonstrate an auditory capability in a broad suite of previously neglected taxa, and provide the first evidence in any marine organisms that reef noise can act as a deterrent. In contrast to the larvae of species that require reef habitat for future success, which showed an attraction to broadcasted reef noise, taxa with a pelagic or nocturnally emergent lifestyle actively avoided it. Our results suggest that a far greater range of invertebrate taxa than previously thought can respond to acoustic cues, emphasising yet further the potential negative impact of globally increasing levels of underwater anthropogenic noise. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | NERC | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | BBSRC | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Australian Institute of Marine Science | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Marsden Fund NZ | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 6, Iss. 2, pp. e16625 - | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0016625 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19818 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21326604 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016625 | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2011 Simpson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Acoustic Stimulation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Adaptation, Physiological | en_GB |
dc.subject | Animals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Avoidance Learning | en_GB |
dc.subject | Circadian Rhythm | en_GB |
dc.subject | Coral Reefs | en_GB |
dc.subject | Crustacea | en_GB |
dc.subject | Escape Reaction | en_GB |
dc.subject | Fishes | en_GB |
dc.subject | Light | en_GB |
dc.subject | Noise | en_GB |
dc.subject | Photoperiod | en_GB |
dc.subject | Random Allocation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sound | en_GB |
dc.title | Adaptive avoidance of reef noise. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-15T10:10:50Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | United States | |
dc.description | Published online | en_GB |
dc.description | Evaluation Studies | en_GB |
dc.description | Journal Article | en_GB |
dc.description | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | PLoS One | en_GB |