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The soundscape of Hawaiian coral reef communities shifts in time with the rising and setting of the moon

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Moonlight-driven biological choruses in Hawaiian coral reefs

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Fish community on a reef offshore of Hawaii Island.

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Credit: Lauren Freeman, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

The soundscape of Hawaiian coral reef communities shifts in time with the rising and setting of the moon

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299916

Article Title: Moonlight-driven biological choruses in Hawaiian coral reefs

Author Countries: USA

Funding: Work was supported by the Office of Naval Research under the Task Force Ocean Biological Soundscapes program (award number N0001423WX01328). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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