Soundscapes and larval settlement: larval bivalve responses to habitat-associated underwater sounds
Eggleston, D.B.; Lillis, A.; Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2016). Soundscapes and larval settlement: larval bivalve responses to habitat-associated underwater sounds, in: Popper, A.N. et al. The effects of noise on aquatic life II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 875: pp. 255-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_30 In: Popper, A.N.; Hawkins, A. (Ed.) (2016). The effects of noise on aquatic life II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 875. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc: New York. ISBN 978-1-4939-2980-1. xxx, 1292 pp., more In: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer: Berlin. ISSN 0065-2598; e-ISSN 2214-8019, more |  |
| Keywords | Biological settlement > Larval settlement
Invertebrates > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Veneridae > Mercenaria > Mercenaria mercenaria
Oysters
Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) [WoRMS]
| | Author keywords | Clams; Estuarine soundscape; Habitat-specific sounds |
| Authors | | Top | - Eggleston, D.B.
- Lillis, A.
- Bohnenstiehl, D.R.
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| Abstract | We quantified the effects of habitat-associated sounds on the settlement response of two species of bivalves with contrasting habitat preferences: (1) Crassostrea virginica (oyster), which prefers to settle on other oysters, and (2) Mercenaria mercenaria (clam), which settles on unstructured habitats. Oyster larval settlement in the laboratory was significantly higher when exposed to oyster reef sound compared with either off-reef or no-sound treatments. Clam larval settlement did not vary according to sound treatments. Similar to laboratory results, field experiments showed that oyster larval settlement in “larval housings” suspended above oyster reefs was significantly higher compared with off-reef sites. |
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