Fish chorus and vessel noise in a marine protected coastal reef vary with lunar phase

This study implemented Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) to evaluate temporal acoustic patterns in a protected coastal reef area in Tamandaré beach (100 km south of Recife city, Pernambuco State, Brazil). We used an autonomous underwater recorder that allowed continuous recordings from December to March. The sounds detected in the marine protected area indicated the presence of six chorus types, two of them occurring only in winter. We detected choruses occurring in different times of the day and presenting a daily pattern, with differences in the initial time of detection ( p