Category: Passive Acoustic Monitoring
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Coastal Soundscapes
Our coastal habitats are full of sound! To understand what sounds we find in UK’s coastal habitats, such as seagrass meadows, kelp forests, rocky reefs and sandy beaches we teamed up with SailBritain to explore our underwater soundscapes and featured on BBC Landward (2022 episode 16)! Honours student Carla Leone used the sound recordings collected…
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Healthy and unhealthy soundscapes in cold-water coral reefs
AmpLOPHELIA assesses the health and biodiversity of cold-water coral (CWC) reefs ecosystems using passive acoustic recordings. Lophelia pertusa (aka Desmophyllum pertusum), the dominant framework forming CWC in the North Atlantic, is widely recognised as both functionally important and threatened by fisheries, ocean warming and acidification. Acoustic landscapes, or soundscapes, are composed of biological, geophysical and…
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Use of Passive Acoustics to Quantify Fish Biodiversity and Habitat Use
Vazella pourtalesii is a large sponge that can form dense sponge grounds which locally enhance biodiversity in the deep sea. Many commercial fish species have been found associated with these sponge grounds, including silver hake, redfish and haddock. However, it is challenging to understand how exactly these fish use these unique habitats. This is why…
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Passive acoustic monitoring as a tool for offshore wind farm biodiversity assessments
This proof-of-concept pilot study is exploring if existing Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) recordings can be used to assess changes in ecosystem health, specifically in relation to the benthic and fish communities associated with different habitat types. Changes in species composition and various stressors (e.g. noise pollution) are expected to occur during and after the installation…
Laurence De Clippele's Research Group 