Automatic detection, classification, and quantification of sciaenid fish calls in an estuarine soundscape in the Southeast United States.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Agnieszka Monczak, Yiming Ji, Jamileh Soueidan, Eric W Montie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; May River; Red drum; Sciaenops ocellatus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209914; https://doaj.org/article/11f86a41d1574ca597d0ea6d99792146

In the Southeast USA, major contributors to estuarine soundscapes are the courtship calls produced by fish species belonging to the family Sciaenidae. Long-term monitoring of sciaenid courtship sounds may be valuable in understanding reproductive phenology, but this approach produces massive acousti...