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SUBMITTER: Gordon TAC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884498 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20191129 1
Coral reefs worldwide are increasingly damaged by anthropogenic stressors, necessitating novel approaches for their management. Maintaining healthy fish communities counteracts reef degradation, but degraded reefs smell and sound less attractive to settlement-stage fishes than their healthy states. Here, using a six-week field experiment, we demonstrate that playback of healthy reef sound can increase fish settlement and retention to degraded habitat. We compare fish community development on aco ...[more]