Fish Acoustic Communities in a Conservation Perspective
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2022) | Viewed by 3923
Image courtesy of Dr. Marta Bolgan and Dr. Lucia di Iorio
Special Issue Editors
Interests: acoustic communication; fish bioacoustics; passive acoustic monitoring; fish acoustic community ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to present a collection of studies in the emerging field of fish acoustic community ecology. Fish sounds are major contributors to marine and freshwater soundscapes. In recent decades, we have learned how sounds emitted by fish can be used as proxies for informing our understanding about the diversity of species, the phenology of biological events, the location of functional sites (e.g., spawning grounds) and the status of fish populations.
The study of fish sounds at the community level, including fish acoustic community composition, organization and variability, represents today an emerging new field, which holds the promise of providing fine-scale spatiotemporal information on patterns and changes from the species up to the community level.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to foster discussions on the potential applications of fish acoustic community ecology for obtaining valuable information on fish biodiversity dynamics and changes.
Papers may be focused on the following areas:
- Fish acoustic signal description and classification methods;
- Fish acoustic community analysis methods;
- Contribution of acoustic monitoring to traditional fish community monitoring techniques;
- Experimental studies investigating the acoustic adaptive hypothesis and/or the acoustic niche hypothesis in acoustic fish communities;
- Characterization of acoustic fish communities and comparison over different spatial and temporal scales;
- Influence of the environment on the composition and organization of fish acoustic communities.
Dr. Marta Bolgan
Dr. Lucia di Iorio
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- acoustic niches
- acoustic adaptations
- fish acoustic ecology
- acoustic ecology
- acoustic communities
- bioacoustics
- conservation biology
- fish sounds
- passive acoustic monitoring
