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Anthropogenic noise increases fish mortality by predation

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, February 2016
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Title
Anthropogenic noise increases fish mortality by predation
Published in
Nature Communications, February 2016
DOI 10.1038/ncomms10544
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Authors

Stephen D. Simpson, Andrew N. Radford, Sophie L. Nedelec, Maud C. O. Ferrari, Douglas P. Chivers, Mark I. McCormick, Mark G. Meekan

Abstract

Noise-generating human activities affect hearing, communication and movement in terrestrial and aquatic animals, but direct evidence for impacts on survival is rare. We examined effects of motorboat noise on post-settlement survival and physiology of a prey fish species and its performance when exposed to predators. Both playback of motorboat noise and direct disturbance by motorboats elevated metabolic rate in Ambon damselfish (Pomacentrus amboinensis), which when stressed by motorboat noise responded less often and less rapidly to simulated predatory strikes. Prey were captured more readily by their natural predator (dusky dottyback, Pseudochromis fuscus) during exposure to motorboat noise compared with ambient conditions, and more than twice as many prey were consumed by the predator in field experiments when motorboats were passing. Our study suggests that a common source of noise in the marine environment has the potential to impact fish demography, highlighting the need to include anthropogenic noise in management plans.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Unknown 620 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 137 22%
Student > Master 98 16%
Researcher 96 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 78 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 4%
Other 63 10%
Unknown 135 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 271 43%
Environmental Science 128 20%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 17 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 2%
Psychology 8 1%
Other 38 6%
Unknown 159 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 354. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2022.
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#88,813
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#1,301
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