Data from: Rapid recovery following short-term acoustic disturbance in two fish species ...

Noise from human activities is known to impact organisms in a variety of taxa, but most experimental studies on the behavioural effects of noise have focused on examining responses associated with the period of actual exposure. Unlike most pollutants, acoustic noise is generally short-lived, usually...

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Main Authors: Bruintjes, Rick, Purser, Julia, Everley, Kirsty A., Mangan, Stephanie, Simpson, Stephen D., Radford, Andrew N.
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2015
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7b0v8
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7b0v8
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Summary:Noise from human activities is known to impact organisms in a variety of taxa, but most experimental studies on the behavioural effects of noise have focused on examining responses associated with the period of actual exposure. Unlike most pollutants, acoustic noise is generally short-lived, usually dissipating quickly after the source is turned off or leaves the area. In a series of experiments, we use established experimental paradigms to examine how fish behaviour and physiology are affected, both during short-term (2 min) exposure to playback of recordings of anthropogenic noise sources and in the immediate aftermath of noise exposure. We considered the anti-predator response and ventilation rate of juvenile European eels (Anguilla anguilla) and ventilation rate of juvenile European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax). As previously found, additional-noise exposure decreased eel anti-predator responses, increased startle latency and increased ventilation rate relative to ambient-noise-exposed controls. Our ... : Bruintjes_DataRaw data behavioural and physiological measurements ...