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Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions
Human-made noise is contributing increasingly to ocean soundscapes. Its physical, physiological and behavioural effects on marine organisms are potentially widespread, but our understanding remains largely limited to intraspecific impacts. Here, we examine how motorboats affect an interspecific clea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5539144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28765626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06515-2 |
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author | Nedelec, Sophie L. Mills, Suzanne C. Radford, Andrew N. Beldade, Ricardo Simpson, Stephen D. Nedelec, Brendan Côté, Isabelle M. |
author_facet | Nedelec, Sophie L. Mills, Suzanne C. Radford, Andrew N. Beldade, Ricardo Simpson, Stephen D. Nedelec, Brendan Côté, Isabelle M. |
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description | Human-made noise is contributing increasingly to ocean soundscapes. Its physical, physiological and behavioural effects on marine organisms are potentially widespread, but our understanding remains largely limited to intraspecific impacts. Here, we examine how motorboats affect an interspecific cleaning mutualism critical for coral reef fish health, abundance and diversity. We conducted in situ observations of cleaning interactions between bluestreak cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus) and their fish clients before, during and after repeated, standardised approaches with motorboats. Cleaners inspected clients for longer and were significantly less cooperative during exposure to boat noise, and while motorboat disturbance appeared to have little effect on client behaviour, as evidenced by consistency of visit rates, clientele composition, and use of cleaning incitation signals, clients did not retaliate as expected (i.e., by chasing) in response to increased cheating by cleaners. Our results are consistent with the idea of cognitive impairments due to distraction by both parties. Alternatively, cleaners might be taking advantage of distracted clients to reduce their service quality. To more fully understand the importance of these findings for conservation and management, further studies should elucidate whether the efficacy of ectoparasite removal by cleaners is affected and explore the potential for habituation to boat noise in busy areas. |
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spelling | pubmed-55391442017-08-07 Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions Nedelec, Sophie L. Mills, Suzanne C. Radford, Andrew N. Beldade, Ricardo Simpson, Stephen D. Nedelec, Brendan Côté, Isabelle M. Sci Rep Article Human-made noise is contributing increasingly to ocean soundscapes. Its physical, physiological and behavioural effects on marine organisms are potentially widespread, but our understanding remains largely limited to intraspecific impacts. Here, we examine how motorboats affect an interspecific cleaning mutualism critical for coral reef fish health, abundance and diversity. We conducted in situ observations of cleaning interactions between bluestreak cleaner wrasses (Labroides dimidiatus) and their fish clients before, during and after repeated, standardised approaches with motorboats. Cleaners inspected clients for longer and were significantly less cooperative during exposure to boat noise, and while motorboat disturbance appeared to have little effect on client behaviour, as evidenced by consistency of visit rates, clientele composition, and use of cleaning incitation signals, clients did not retaliate as expected (i.e., by chasing) in response to increased cheating by cleaners. Our results are consistent with the idea of cognitive impairments due to distraction by both parties. Alternatively, cleaners might be taking advantage of distracted clients to reduce their service quality. To more fully understand the importance of these findings for conservation and management, further studies should elucidate whether the efficacy of ectoparasite removal by cleaners is affected and explore the potential for habituation to boat noise in busy areas. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5539144/ /pubmed/28765626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06515-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Nedelec, Sophie L. Mills, Suzanne C. Radford, Andrew N. Beldade, Ricardo Simpson, Stephen D. Nedelec, Brendan Côté, Isabelle M. Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions |
title | Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions |
title_full | Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions |
title_fullStr | Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions |
title_full_unstemmed | Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions |
title_short | Motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions |
title_sort | motorboat noise disrupts co-operative interspecific interactions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5539144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28765626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06515-2 |
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