Passive acoustic monitoring was employed to investigate spatial patterns of soundscapes within a marine reserve. High energy level broadband snaps dominated nearly all habitat soundscapes. Snaps, the principal acoustic feature of soundscapes, were primarily responsible for the observed spatial patterns, and soundscapes appeared to retain a level of compositional and configurational stability. In the presence of high-level broadband snaps, soundscape composition was more influenced by geographic location than habitat type. Future research should focus on investigating the spatial patterns of soundscapes across a wider range of coastal and offshore seascapes containing a variety of distinct ecosystems and habitats.
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McWilliam, J. (2016). Spatial patterns of inshore marine soundscapes. In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (Vol. 875, pp. 697–703). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_84
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