Fish Acoustic Communities in a European Kelp Forest

Supplementary Material 2 provides three datasets analyzing fish acoustic communities. The data includes acoustic recordings, environmental variables, and underwater visual census (UVC) data from a European kelp forest. Authored by Marine Ethève and released under CC-BY-4.0, the 292.7 KB Excel file contains tables describing identified sound types and potential fish species.

Use Cases

• Analyzing diel and tidal patterns in fish acoustic activity based on the acoustic dataset.
• Modeling relationships between fish communities and environmental variables based on the environmental dataset.
• Validating acoustic data with species observations based on the underwater visual census (UVC) dataset.
• Classifying fish sound types based on the provided sound type descriptions.
• Identifying potential sound-producing species in a kelp forest ecosystem based on the species list.

Strengths

• The dataset is structured into three distinct tables for acoustic, environmental, and underwater visual census data, facilitating integrated analysis.
• It includes a description of identified sound types and a list of potential emitting species, adding ecological context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely collected via acoustic recorders, environmental sensors, and underwater visual census in a kelp forest.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-16 03:50:09.

Geography

A European kelp forest; specific location is not stated.