How human noise affects ocean habitats - Kate Stafford
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Oceanographer Kate Stafford lowers us into the sonically rich depths of the Arctic Ocean, where ice groans, whales sing to communicate over vast distances— and climate change and human noise threaten to alter the environment in ways we don't understand. Learn more about why this underwater soundscape matters and what we might do to protect it.
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Together, this concert is known as a habitat’s soundscape. The soundscape can inform about health and biodiversity of an ecosystem. Larvae of reef critters are considered to be attracted to a healthy soundscape during their settlement stage. It has therefore been suggested that playback of healthy soundscapes could benefit coral reef restoration. One of the largest of these research efforts is the Australian Institute of Marine Science Reef Song project.
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