Diel and tidal rhythms drive fish acoustic communities in a European kelp forest
Marine Ethève, Pierre Thiriet, Gaëlle Legras, Philippe Lenfant, François Bourrin, Lucia Di Iorio · 2026
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Marine Ethève and five co-authors listen, in a 2026 study, to fish sounds in a European kelp forest. Kelp forests shift fast under global change, and monitoring their life is hard. Microphones in the water can track marine life day and night without harm, in a method called passive acoustic monitoring.
The team paired summer recordings with environmental data and diver counts. Daily and tidal cycles drove most of the change in sound activity, spread of kinds, and community mix. Sound activity rose at low water, while diver counts of fish ran high at high water. That split hints that sound marks how fish behave, not just how many are there. The recordings held more sound types than seen species, pointing to rich calls per species. Calm seas lifted calls too. The authors back sound monitoring as a partner to visual surveys.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marine Ethève, Pierre Thiriet, Gaëlle Legras, Philippe Lenfant, François Bourrin, Lucia Di Iorio |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |