@article {cones_offshore_2024,
	title = {Offshore windfarm construction elevates metabolic rate and increases predation vulnerability of a key marine invertebrate},
	journal = {Environmental Pollution},
	volume = {360},
	year = {2024},
	month = {11/2024},
	pages = {124709},
	abstract = {A global increase in offshore windfarm development is critical to our renewable energy future. Yet, widespread construction plans have generated substantial concern for impacts to co-occurring organisms and the communities they form. Pile driving construction, prominent in offshore windfarm development, produces among the highest amplitude sounds in the ocean creating widespread concern for a diverse array of taxa. However, studies addressing ecologically key species are generally lacking and most research is disparate, failing to integrate across response types (e.g., behavior, physiology, and ecological interactions), particularly in situ. The lack of integrative field studies presents major challenges to understand or mitigate actual impacts of offshore wind development. Here, we examined critical behavioral, physiological, and antipredator impacts of actual pile driving construction on the giant sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus). Benthic taxa including bivalves are of particular concern because they are sound-sensitive, cannot move appreciable distances away from the stressor, and support livelihoods as one of the world{\textquoteright}s most economically and socially important fisheries. Overall, pile driving sound impacted scallops across a series of behavioral and physiological assays. Sound-exposed scallops consistently reduced their valve opening (22\%), resulting in lowered mantle water oxygen levels available to the gills. Repeated and rapid valve adductions led to a 56\% increase in metabolic rates relative to pre-exposure baselines. Consequently, in response to predator stimuli, sound-exposed scallops displayed a suite of significantly weaker antipredator behaviors including fewer swimming events and shorter time-to-exhaustion. These results show aquatic construction activities can induce metabolic and ecologically relevant changes in a key benthic animal. As offshore windfarm construction accelerates globally, our field-based study highlights that spatial overlap with benthic taxa may cause substantial metabolic changes, alter important fisheries resources, and ultimately could lead to increased predation.},
	keywords = {Metabolism, noise, Predation, Scallop, Sound pollution},
	issn = {0269-7491},
	doi = {10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124709},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749124014234},
	author = {Cones, Seth F. and J{\'e}z{\'e}quel, Youenn and Jarriel, Sierra and Aoki, Nad{\`e}ge and Brewer, Hannah and Collins, John and Chauvaud, Laurent and Mooney, T. Aran}
}
@article {yang_character_2012,
	title = {The character of seafloor ambient noise recorded offshore New Zealand: Results from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {13},
	number = {10},
	year = {2012},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2012GC004201},
	abstract = {{We analyze the characteristics of ambient noise recorded on ocean-bottom seismographs using data from the 2009{\textendash}2010 MOANA (Marine Observations of Anisotropy Near Aotearoa) seismic experiment deployed west and east of South Island, New Zealand. Microseism and infragravity noise peaks are clear on data recorded on the vertical channel of the seismometer and on the pressure sensor. The noise levels in the infragravity band (<0.03 Hz) on the horizontal seismometer channels are too high to show the infragravity peak. There is a small difference (\~{}0.25 Hz versus \~{}0.2 Hz) in microseism peak frequencies between the two sides of the South Island on all three seismic channels. Our results show clear depth dependence between the peak frequency of infragravity waves and the water depth. We find that the product of water depth and wave number at the peak frequency is a constant},
	keywords = {continental shelf, infragravity wave, New Zealand, noise, OBS},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2012GC004201},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2012GC004201},
	author = {Yang, Zhaohui and Sheehan, Anne F. and Collins, John A. and Laske, Gabi}
}
