Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations

Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations Credit: Collage created by Eric W. Montie, with images from Lindsey Transue (A), Agnieszka Monczak (B), Brock Renkas (C) and Meghan Gallipeau/Dr. Patricia Fair (D), […]

Apr 19, 2023 - 20:00
Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations

Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations

Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in the noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary in South Carolina, USA, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations.

Credit: Collage created by Eric W. Montie, with images from Lindsey Transue (A), Agnieszka Monczak (B), Brock Renkas (C) and Meghan Gallipeau/Dr. Patricia Fair (D), CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283848

Article Title: The Biological and Anthropogenic Soundscape of an Urbanized Port – the Charleston Harbor Estuary, South Carolina, USA

Author Countries: USA

Funding: We thank the South Carolina Aquarium (https://scaquarium.org/) for support and sponsorship to PF. This project was also supported by the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust and partially funded by the South Carolina Ports Authority (https://scspa.com/) to PF. This project was also supported by the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA; https://secoora.org/) with NOAA financial assistance award number NA21NOS0120097 to EWM. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of SECOORA or NOAA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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