Data from: Silent oceans: ocean acidification impoverishes natural soundscapes by altering sound production of the world’s noisiest marine invertebrate ...

• Main Authors: Rossi, Tullio, Connell, Sean D., Nagelkerken, Ivan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: sound; snapping shrimp; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.67fp5; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.67fp5

Soundscapes are multidimensional spaces that carry meaningful information for many species about the location and quality of nearby and distant resources. Because soundscapes are the sum of the acoustic signals produced by individual organisms and their interactions, they can be used as a proxy for the condition of whole ecosystems and their occupants. Ocean acidification resulting from anthropogenic CO2 emissions is known to have profound effects on marine life. However, despite the increasingly recognised ecological importance of soundscapes, there is no empirical test of whether ocean acidification can affect biological sound production. Using field recordings obtained from three geographically separated natural CO2 vents, we show that forecasted end-of-century ocean acidification conditions can profoundly reduce biological sound quantity and quality. Snapping shrimps were among the noisiest marine organisms and the suppression of their sound production at vents was responsible for the vast majority of ... : Rossi et al. 2016 Proc B - datasetThe excel file contains 8 sheets. The first four sheets contain the data used for a specific figure in the manuscript. The name of the sheet identifies which figure the data represent (Fig. 1A,1B,2,3). The last four sheets contain the water chemistry data reported in table S1.Proc B - soundscape OA - TRossi dataset.xlsx ...