Abstract
We quantified the effects of habitat-associated sounds on the settlement response of two species of bivalves with contrasting habitat preferences: (1) Crassostrea virginicia (oyster), which prefers to settle on other oysters, and (2) Mercenaria mercenaria (clam), which settles on unstructured habitats. Oyster larval settlement in the laboratory was significantly higher when exposed to oyster reef sound compared with either off-reef or no-sound treatments. Clam larval settlement did not vary according to sound treatments. Similar to laboratory results, field experiments showed that oyster larval settlement in “larval housings” suspended above oyster reefs was significantly higher compared with off-reef sites.
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Funding for this work was provided by National Science Foundation Grants OCE-1234688 and DDIG-1210292 as well as by small grants to A. Lillis from the PADI Foundation and the National Shellfisheries Association. We thank G. Plaia, B. Puckett, R. Dunn, H. Eggleston, K. Pierson, J. Peters, and B. Gericke for field assistance.
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Eggleston, D.B., Lillis, A., Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2016). Soundscapes and Larval Settlement: Larval Bivalve Responses to Habitat-Associated Underwater Sounds. In: Popper, A., Hawkins, A. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 875. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_30
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