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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

04.19.23 | PLOS

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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.
(A) Charleston Harbor Estuary is one of the busiest and fastest growing container ports in the southeast USA. Image credit: Lindsey Transue. (B) Six passive acoustic recorders were deployed from December 2017 to June 2019 to determine biological patterns and human-associated influences on the soundscape. Image credit: Agnieszka Monczak. (C) Long-term, fishery independent tag recapture program for red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) performed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDN 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.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0283848

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

19-Apr-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Estuaries Harbors Ichthyology Marine Life Urbanization Vocalization

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0283848
Article Publication Date
2023-04-19
Article Title
The Biological and Anthropogenic Soundscape of an Urbanized Port – the Charleston Harbor Estuary, South Carolina, USA
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, April 19). 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. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8J49R6WL/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.html
MLA:
"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." Brightsurf News, Apr. 19 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8J49R6WL/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.html.