Passive acoustics for the study of soundscape and impact of noise on marine organisms.

BAZTERRICA, M CIELO; FILLICIOTO, FRANCESCO; SALMOYANO, MARÍA PAZ; CERAULO, MARÍA; GAVIO, M. A.; FERNANDO HIDALGO; BUSCAINO, GIUSEPPA

Mar del Plata

Simposio; Kick-off meeting CAIMAR Joint Laboratory; 2017

Conicet

Each environment is characterized by a distinctive acoustic signature or soundscape which is composed of sounds of biological, geophysical and anthropogenic origin. In the marine environment, the study of the soundscape with passive acoustic techniques, allows to complement the ecological knowledge of those species that emit sounds, as invertebrates, fishes and marine mammals. The soundscape ecology shows the species circadian and seasonal patterns, highlighting the fact that human activities and large global changes interact significantly with them. In this context, our main objective is to obtain and analyse bioacoustic data to identify and describe the biological and anthropogenic components that characterize the soundscape of coastal sites of Argentina, including protected areas of particular interest for marine conservation, potentially affected by maritime traffic.Currently we study the Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon soundscape and the acoustic behavior of crustaceans in alternative social contexts in collaboration with the IAMC-CNR.