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29 janvier 2021
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Willis Jenkins, « 12. Listening for Coastal Futures », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.odsdpe
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Eyes widened in surprise as each researcher put on the headphones. Even the two coastal ecologists who had been working here for decades had never before heard the sound. Just below the quiet water lapping at our feet, an oyster reef crackled. Tiny, snapping shrimp amidst the oysters make a punctuated vibration that sounds to human ears like a snapped finger or a dropped pebble. Collectively, these shrimp make it possible for us to hear the reef’s structure, as a vertically layered crackling....