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Looby A, Erbe C, Bravo S, Cox K, Davies HL, Di Iorio L, Jézéquel Y, Juanes F, Martin CW, Mooney TA, Radford C, Reynolds LK, Rice AN, Riera A, Rountree R, Spriel B, Stanley J, Vela S, Parsons MJG. Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Sci Data 2023; 10:892. [PMID: 38110417 PMCID: PMC10728183 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023] Open
Abstract
A working group from the Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds effort collaborated with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) to create an inventory of species confirmed or expected to produce sound underwater. We used several existing inventories and additional literature searches to compile a dataset categorizing scientific knowledge of sonifery for 33,462 species and subspecies across marine mammals, other tetrapods, fishes, and invertebrates. We found 729 species documented as producing active and/or passive sounds under natural conditions, with another 21,911 species deemed likely to produce sounds based on evaluated taxonomic relationships. The dataset is available on both figshare and WoRMS where it can be regularly updated as new information becomes available. The data can also be integrated with other databases (e.g., SeaLifeBase, Global Biodiversity Information Facility) to advance future research on the distribution, evolution, ecology, management, and conservation of underwater soniferous species worldwide.
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Affiliation(s)
- Audrey Looby
- Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- Nature Coast Biological Station, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Cedar Key, FL, USA.
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- Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, CNRS, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
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- Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Nature Coast Biological Station, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Cedar Key, FL, USA
- Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, USA
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- Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- Institute of Marine Science, Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Warkworth, New Zealand
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- Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- The Fish Listener, Waquoit, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Coastal Marine Field Station, School of Science, University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand
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- MERIDIAN, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Hu Y, Majoris JE, Buston PM, Webb JF. Ear Development in Select Coral Reef Fishes: Clues for the Role of Hearing in Larval Orientation Behavior? ICHTHYOLOGY & HERPETOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1643/i2022029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yinan Hu
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
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- Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215; Present address: University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, Texas 78373;
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- Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215;
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
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Radford CA, Collins SP, Munday PL, Parsons D. Ocean acidification effects on fish hearing. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20202754. [PMID: 33653144 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Humans are rapidly changing the marine environment through a multitude of effects, including increased greenhouse gas emissions resulting in warmer and acidified oceans. Elevated CO2 conditions can cause sensory deficits and altered behaviours in marine organisms, either directly by affecting end organ sensitivity or due to likely alterations in brain chemistry. Previous studies show that auditory-associated behaviours of larval and juvenile fishes can be affected by elevated CO2 (1000 µatm). Here, using auditory evoked potentials (AEP) and micro-computer tomography (microCT) we show that raising juvenile snapper, Chrysophyrs auratus, under predicted future CO2 conditions resulted in significant changes to their hearing ability. Specifically, snapper raised under elevated CO2 conditions had a significant decrease in low frequency (less than 200 Hz) hearing sensitivity. MicroCT demonstrated that these elevated CO2 snapper had sacculus otolith's that were significantly larger and had fluctuating asymmetry, which likely explains the difference in hearing sensitivity. We suggest that elevated CO2 conditions have a dual effect on hearing, directly effecting the sensitivity of the hearing end organs and altering previously described hearing induced behaviours. This is the first time that predicted future CO2 conditions have been empirically linked through modification of auditory anatomy to changes in fish hearing ability. Given the widespread and well-documented impact of elevated CO2 on fish auditory anatomy, predictions of how fish life-history functions dependent on hearing may respond to climate change may need to be reassessed.
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- C A Radford
- Institute of Marine Science, Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand
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- Institute of Marine Science, Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
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- Institute of Marine Science, Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand.,National Institute of Water and Atmosphere, Private Bag 99940, Newmarket, Auckland 1149, New Zealand
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Baptista V, Costa EFS, Carere C, Morais P, Cruz J, Cerveira I, Castanho S, Ribeiro L, Pousão-Ferreira P, Leitão F, Teodósio MA. Does consistent individual variability in pelagic fish larval behaviour affect recruitment in nursery habitats? Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-020-02841-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Salas AK, Wilson PS, Fuiman LA. Ontogenetic change in predicted acoustic pressure sensitivity in larval red drum ( Sciaenops ocellatus). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 222:jeb.201962. [PMID: 31371400 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.201962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Detecting acoustic pressure can improve a fish's survival and fitness through increased sensitivity to environmental sounds. Pressure detection results from interactions between the swim bladder and otoliths. In larval fishes, those interactions change rapidly as growth and development alter bladder dimensions and otolith-bladder distance. We used computed tomography imagery of lab-reared larval red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) in a finite-element model to assess ontogenetic changes in acoustic pressure sensitivity in response to a plane wave at frequencies within the frequency range of hearing by fishes. We compared the acceleration at points on the sagitta, asteriscus and lapillus when the bladder was air filled with results from models using a water-filled bladder. For larvae of 8.5-18 mm in standard length, the air-filled bladder amplified simulated otolith motion by a factor of 54-3485 times that of a water-filled bladder at 100 Hz. Otolith-bladder distance increased with standard length, which decreased modeled amplification. The concomitant rapid increase in bladder volume partially compensated for the effect of increasing otolith-bladder distance. Calculated resonant frequency of the bladders was between 8750 and 4250 Hz, and resonant frequency decreased with increasing bladder volume. There was a relatively flat frequency dependence of these effects in the audible frequency range, but we found a small increase in amplification with increasing excitation frequency. Using idealized geometry, we found that the larval vertebrae and ribs have negligible influence on bladder motion. Our results help clarify the auditory consequences of ontogenetic changes in bladder morphology and otolith-bladder relationships during larval stages.
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- Andria K Salas
- The University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology Department, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Mechanical Engineering Department, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX 78373, USA
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Soundscape ecology is a rapidly growing field with approximately 93% of all scientific articles on this topic having been published since 2010 (total about 610 publications since 1985). Current acoustic technology is also advancing rapidly, enabling new devices with voluminous data storage and automatic signal detection to define sounds. Future uses of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) include biodiversity assessments, monitoring habitat health, and locating spawning fishes. This paper provides a review of ambient sound and soundscape ecology, fish acoustic monitoring, current recording and sampling methods used in long-term PAM, and parameters/metrics used in acoustic data analysis.
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Putland RL, Merchant ND, Farcas A, Radford CA. Vessel noise cuts down communication space for vocalizing fish and marine mammals. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:1708-1721. [PMID: 29194854 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Anthropogenic noise across the world's oceans threatens the ability of vocalizing marine species to communicate. Some species vocalize at key life stages or whilst foraging, and disruption to the acoustic habitat at these times could lead to adverse consequences at the population level. To investigate the risk of these impacts, we investigated the effect of vessel noise on the communication space of the Bryde's whale Balaenoptera edeni, an endangered species which vocalizes at low frequencies, and bigeye Pempheris adspersa, a nocturnal fish species which uses contact calls to maintain group cohesion while foraging. By combining long-term acoustic monitoring data with AIS vessel-tracking data and acoustic propagation modelling, the impact of vessel noise on their communication space was determined. Routine vessel passages cut down communication space by up to 61.5% for bigeyes and 87.4% for Bryde's whales. This influence of vessel noise on communication space exceeded natural variability for between 3.9 and 18.9% of the monitoring period. Additionally, during the closest point of approach of a large commercial vessel, <10 km from the listening station, the communication space of both species was reduced by a maximum of 99% compared to the ambient soundscape. These results suggest that vessel noise reduces communication space beyond the evolutionary context of these species and may have chronic effects on these populations. To combat this risk, we propose the application or extension of ship speed restrictions in ecologically significant areas, since our results indicate a reduction in sound source levels for vessels transiting at lower speeds.
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- Rosalyn L Putland
- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Warkworth, New Zealand
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
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- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Warkworth, New Zealand
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Vocalizations in juvenile anurans: common spadefoot toads (Pelobates fuscus) regularly emit calls before sexual maturity. Naturwissenschaften 2016; 103:75. [PMID: 27590626 DOI: 10.1007/s00114-016-1401-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Revised: 08/21/2016] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Acoustic communication is prominent in adult anuran amphibians, in reproductive, territorial and defensive contexts. In contrast, reports on vocalizations of juvenile anurans are rare and anecdotal, and their function unstudied. We here provide conclusive evidence for vocalizations in juvenile spadefoot toads (Pelobates fuscus) in very early terrestrial stages. While the aquatic tadpoles did not emit sounds, first vocalizations of metamorphs were heard as early as in stages 42-43, and calls were regularly emitted from stage 44 on, often from specimens still bearing extensive tail stubs. Three main types of calls could be distinguished, of which one consists of a series of short notes, one of a typically single longer and pulsed note, and one of a single tonal note. In experimental setups, the number of calls per froglet increased with density of individuals and after feeding, while on the contrary calls were not elicited by playback. The function of these juvenile calls remains unclarified, but they might reflect a general arousal in the context of feeding. Further evidence is necessary to test whether such feeding calls could confer a signal to conspecifics and thus might represent intraspecific acoustic communication in these immature terrestrial amphibians.
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Evidence for contact calls in fish: conspecific vocalisations and ambient soundscape influence group cohesion in a nocturnal species. Sci Rep 2016; 6:19098. [PMID: 26750559 PMCID: PMC4707522 DOI: 10.1038/srep19098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Soundscapes provide a new tool for the study of fish communities. Bigeyes (Pempheris adspersa) are nocturnal planktivorous reef fish, feed in loose shoals and are soniferous. These vocalisations have been suggested to be contact calls to maintain group cohesion, however direct evidence for this is absent, despite the fact that contact calls are well documented for many other vertebrates, including marine mammals. For fish, direct evidence for group cohesion signals is restricted to the use of visual and hydrodynamic cues. In support of adding vocalisation as a contributing cue, our laboratory experiments show that bigeyes significantly increased group cohesion when exposed to recordings of ambient reef sound at higher sound levels while also decreasing vocalisations. These patterns of behaviour are consistent with acoustic masking. When exposed to playback of conspecific vocalisations, the group cohesion and vocalisation rates of bigeyes both significantly increased. These results provide the first direct experimental support for the hypotheses that vocalisations are used as contact calls to maintain group cohesion in fishes, making fish the evolutionarily oldest vertebrate group in which this phenomenon has been observed, and adding a new dimension to the interpretation of nocturnal reef soundscapes.
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Irisson JO, Paris CB, Leis JM, Yerman MN. With a Little Help from My Friends: Group Orientation by Larvae of a Coral Reef Fish. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144060. [PMID: 26625164 PMCID: PMC4666641 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Accepted: 11/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Theory and some empirical evidence suggest that groups of animals orient better than isolated individuals. We present the first test of this hypothesis for pelagic marine larvae, at the stage of settlement, when orientation is critical to find a habitat. We compare the in situ behaviour of individuals and groups of 10–12 Chromis atripectoralis (reef fish of the family Pomacentridae), off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef. Larvae are observed by divers or with a drifting image recording device. With both methods, groups orient cardinally while isolated individuals do not display significant orientation. Groups also swim on a 15% straighter course (i.e. are better at keeping a bearing) and 7% faster than individuals. A body of observations collected in this study suggest that enhanced group orientation emerges from simple group dynamics rather than from the presence of more skilful leaders.
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- Jean-Olivier Irisson
- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149-1098, United States of America
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149-1098, United States of America
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- Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, NSW 2010 Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7004, Australia
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Radford CA, Ghazali S, Jeffs AG, Montgomery JC. Vocalisations of the bigeye Pempheris adspersa: characteristics, source level and active space. J Exp Biol 2015; 218:940-8. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.115295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Fish sounds are an important biological component of the underwater soundscape. Understanding species-specific sounds and their associated behaviour is critical for determining how animals use the biological component of the soundscape. Using both field and laboratory experiments, we describe the sound production of a nocturnal planktivore, Pempheris adspersa (New Zealand bigeye), and provide calculations for the potential effective distance of the sound for intraspecific communication. Bigeye vocalisations recorded in the field were confirmed as such by tank recordings. They can be described as popping sounds, with individual pops of short duration (7.9±0.3 ms) and a peak frequency of 405±12 Hz. Sound production varied during a 24 h period, with peak vocalisation activity occurring during the night, when the fish are most active. The source level of the bigeye vocalisation was 115.8±0.2 dB re. 1 µPa at 1 m, which is relatively quiet compared with other soniferous fish. Effective calling range, or active space, depended on both season and lunar phase, with a maximum calling distance of 31.6 m and a minimum of 0.6 m. The bigeyes' nocturnal behaviour, characteristics of their vocalisation, source level and the spatial scale of its active space reported in the current study demonstrate the potential for fish vocalisations to function effectively as contact calls for maintaining school cohesion in darkness.
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- Craig A. Radford
- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand
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- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand
- Marine Ecosystem Research Centre (EKOMAR) and School of Environment and Natural Resources, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
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- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand
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- Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, PO Box 349, Warkworth 0941, New Zealand
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