Full Description

"Because males make sounds associated with courtship, we were able to use aggregation sound as an indicator of population spawning activity, monitoring sound at this site with passive acoustics."

"Average time of aggregation sound was 19:20 h ± 7 min. Most aggregation sound (82% of aggregation hours, n = 327) occurred from 18:00 h to midnight; this was considered the window of peak spawning activity (Fig. 3A). However, aggregation sound was detected from as early as 15:00 h (3 dates) to as late as 02:00 h (1 date)."

"Spawning aggregation sound occurred daily between 9 May and 13 July, with the exception of 2 days in May."

Observation Environment Quotes

"This study was conducted from April 2005 to September 2005 at Bunces Pass, an inlet at the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida, USA (Fig 1). This location had been previously identified as the most consistently used and densely populated spotted seatrout spawning site in Tampa Bay (Walters et al. 2009, LowerreBarbieri et al. 2009)."

"We deployed a high-density fixed array of acoustic receivers (VR2s, Vemco) to monitor the spawning site."

Behaviour Description Quotes

"Because males make sounds associated with courtship, we were able to use aggregation sound as an indicator of population spawning activity, monitoring sound at this site with passive acoustics. "

"Spawning aggregation sound occurred daily between 9 May and 13 July, with the exception of 2 days in May."