海洋科学：研究与开发

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Sea Cage Aquaculture has a Range of Bad Influences on Coral Reefs

Morgan Khary

Sound-sensitive organisms are considerable on coral reefs. Accordingly, experiments endorse that boat noise may want to elicit damaging outcomes on coral reef organisms. Yet, there are few records quantifying boat noise incidence on coral reefs. We use long-term passive acoustic recordings at 9 coral reefs and one sandy evaluation website online in a marine included region to quantify spatio-temporal version in boat noise and its impact on the soundscape. Boat noise was once most frequent at reefs with excessive coral cowl and fish density, and temporal patterns mirrored patterns of human activity. Boat noise drastically expanded low-frequency sound tiers at the monitored sites. With boat noise present, the height frequencies of the herbal soundscape shifted from greater frequencies to the decrease frequencies regularly used in fish communication.