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Marine pollution bulletin
2025
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40582090/ |
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- The effect of vessel noise on behavior and physiology of orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides) under conditions with and without artificial lighting. Liu, Hui Lu, Zijian Shen, Pingping Zhang, Kaicheng Qin, Geng Yin, Jianping Lin, Qiang Zhang, Huixian Animals Bass Behavior, Animal Lighting Noise Ships Anthropogenic disturbances have significantly transformed the ocean soundscape, with vessel noise being a primary factor that overlaps with fish hearing ranges, thereby substantially affecting marine life. Meanwhile, artificial light at night (ALAN) is an emerging stressor that can disrupt the natural rhythms of marine organisms. Despite extensive research on the individual impacts of noise and ALAN, marine organisms are often concurrently exposed to both stressors in natural environments. However, studies on their combined effects remain limited. The orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides), a large marine bony fish found in tropical and subtropical Pacific-Indian regions and highly sensitive to environmental changes, serves as an excellent model for assessing marine ecological risks. This study employed laboratory simulations to investigate the effects of vessel noise on fish behavior under different lighting conditions (natural light cycles vs. ALAN) over short- (1 week) and long-term (6 weeks) exposures. Transcriptomic analyses of the brain and head kidney were conducted to further explore the physiological impacts. The results indicated that groupers exhibited differential behavioral responses to vessel noise under varying lighting conditions. Transcriptomic data revealed that vessel noise disrupted neural development, immune function, and endocrine regulation. Moreover, the analysis showed that under ALAN, vessel noise had a more pronounced effect on the immune system. Overall, this study demonstrates that vessel noise can disrupt both the behavior and physiology of orange-spotted groupers, underscoring the importance of considering the combined effects of multiple anthropogenic stressors when evaluating their cumulative impacts on marine life.