Picciulin Marta, Petrizzo Antonio, Madricardo Fantina, Barbanti Andrea, Bastianini Mauro, Biagiotti Ilaria, Bosi Sofia, Centurelli Michele, Codarin Antonio, Costantini Ilaria, Dadić Vlado, Falkner Raffaela, Folegot Thomas, Galvez Daphnie, Leonori Iole, Menegon Stefano, Mihanović Hrvoje, Muslim Stipe, Pari Alice, Pari Sauro, Pleslić Grgur, Radulović Marko, Rako-Gospić Nikolina, Sabbatini Davide, Tegowski Jaroslaw, Vukadin Predrag, Ghezzo Michol
Anthropogenic underwater noise is an emergent pollutant. Despite several worldwide monitoring programs, only few data are available for the Mediterranean Sea, one of the global biodiversity hotspots. The results of the first continuous acoustic programme run at a transnational basin scale in the Mediterranean Sea are here presented. Recordings were done from March 2020 to June 2021, including the COVID-19 lockdown, at nine stations in the Northern Adriatic Sea. Spatial-temporal variations of the underwater sound are described, having one third octave band sound pressure levels (SPLs) from 10 Hz to 20 kHz as metrics...
December 20, 2023: Scientific Reports