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

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Monczak, Agnieszka, Ji, Yiming, Soueidan, Jamileh, Montie, Eric W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2019
• Subjects: Research Article; May River; Red drum; Sciaenops ocellatus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334970/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30650120; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209914

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...