Acoustic Monitoring of a Thalassia testudinum seagrass meadow in a shallow sub-tropical lagoon

This dataset contains data from both active and passive acoustical methods for ecosystem monitoring in seagrass meadows. From a propagation perspective, gas bodies contained within the seagrass tissue as well as photosynthetic-driven bubble production result in attenuation, dispersion, and scattering of sound that produce increased transmission loss. For the passive approach, the detachment of gas bubbles from the plants is an important component of the ambient soundscape. Data was collected as part of a two-year continuous deployment of an acoustical measurement system operating in a moderately dense seagrassbed dominated by Thalassia testudinum (turtle grass) in Corpus Christi Bay, Texas. Data are explained in the metadata file. More information can be found in Ballard et al., (2024) Journal of the Acoustic Society of America and Capistrant-Fossa et al., (2024) Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research.