Скачать или смотреть Using passive acoustic monitoring and genetic testing to determine the marine habitat connectivity

For the past two summers, marine biology doctoral student Grant Milne spent several days a week off the coasts of New Castle, N.H., and Fort Foster, Maine collecting sound and water samples. Donning scuba gear, deploying hydrophones (underwater microphones) and carrying water sampling containers, Milne recorded the soundscapes via a methodology called passive acoustic monitoring, or PAM, in three habitat types to better understand the connectivity of these potentially at-risk Gulf of Maine areas—as well as investigate how natural or human change would impact their soundscapes.

Milne’s research and research like it occurring at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture represent an emerging, non-destructive approach to studying natural environments and conservation ecology—by comparing soundscapes and genetic makeup, and tracking them over time, to assess anthropogenic impacts and other causes of environmental change.

Read more about this research at https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2023/04/...