Towards a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds

The Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, an initiative of IQOE’s Working Group on Acoustic Measurement of Ocean Biodiversity Hotspots, has published “Sounding the Call for a Global Library of Biological Underwater Sounds” in “Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.”

Parsons, M. J. G., Lin, T.-H., Mooney, T. A., Erbe, C., Juanes, F., Lammers, M., et al. (2022). Sounding the Call for a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10, 810156. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.810156.

Press coverage with a description of the paper as well as snippets of sound from a toadfish, piranha, gurnard fish, sea urchin, crab, and whale and information about 14 sound libraries can be found here.