Selected Scientific Publications
Soundscape Variation, Measurement & Analysis
Lillis, A., Kremer, S., & M. Caputo (2026). Bubbles Blow: Using rebreathers, freediving, and low-cost recording equipment to expand fish sound libraries. In: Popper, A.N., Sisneros, J.A., Lepper, P.A., Vigness-Raposa, K.J. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life IV. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94229-7_193-1.
Williams B., Merriënboer, B., Dumoulin, V., Hamer, J., Fleishman, A.B., McKown, M., Munger, J., Rice, A.N., Lillis, A., White, Hobbs, C., Razak, T., Curnick, D., Jones, K.E., & T. Denton (2025). Leveraging tropical reef, bird and unrelated sounds for superior transfer learning in marine bioacoustics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 380: 20240280. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0280.
Lillis, A., Apprill, A., Armenteros, M. & T.A. Mooney (2023). Small-scale variation in the acoustic environments of coral reefs. In: Popper, A. N., Hawkins, A.D., Thomsen, F. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10417-6_114-1.
Lillis, A., Caruso, F., Mooney, T.A., Llopiz, J.K., Bohnenstiehl, D.R., & D.B. Eggleston (2018). Drifting hydrophones as an ecologically meaningful approach to underwater soundscape measurement in coastal benthic habitats. Journal of Ecoacoustics 2: #STBDH1, https://doi.org/10.22261/JEA.STBDH1.
Dinh, J.P., Suca, J.J., Lillis, A., Apprill, A., Llopiz, J., & T.A. Mooney (2018). Multiscale spatio-temporal patterns of boat noise on U.S. Virgin Island coral reefs. Marine Pollution Bulletin 136: 282-290. PDF
Lillis, A., Eggleston, D.B., & D.R. Bohnenstiehl (2014). Soundscape variation from a larval perspective: the case for habitat-associated sound as a settlement cue for weakly swimming larvae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 509: 57-70. doi: 10.3354/meps10917. PDF
Lillis, A., Eggleston, D.B., & D.R. Bohnenstiehl (2014). Estuarine soundscapes: distinct acoustic characteristics of oyster reefs compared to soft-bottom habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 505: 19-28. PDF
Coral Reproduction
Lillis A. & N. Jiddawi (2026). Documenting coral spawning in East Africa: first in situ observations from Zanzibar for three reef-building species. PeerJ 14:e20999 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20999.
Nixon, E.N., Gutting, A.N., Cook, S., Wegley Kelly, L., & A. Lillis (2025). Multi‐year evaluation of rearing techniques for three sexually propagated Caribbean corals in a restoration setting. Restoration Ecology. e70039. http://doi.org/10.1111/rec.70039.
Snapping Shrimp Acoustic Ecology
Lillis, A. & M. Caputo (2026). Spatiotemporal variation in snapping shrimp sound production in East African coral reef soundscapes. In: Popper, A.N., Sisneros, J.A., Lepper, P.A., Vigness-Raposa, K.J. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life IV. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94229-7_86-1.
Lillis, A. & T.A. Mooney (2022). Sounds of a changing sea: temperature drives acoustic output by dominant biological sound-producers in shallow water habitats. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:960881.https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.960881.
Lillis, A., & T.A. Mooney (2018). Snapping shrimp sound production patterns on Caribbean coral reefs: relationships with celestial cycles and environmental variables. Coral Reefs 37(2): 597-607. PDF
Lillis, A., Perelman, J., Panyi, A., & T.A. Mooney (2017). Sound production patterns of big-clawed snapping shrimp (Alpheus spp.) are influenced by time-of-day and social context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142(5): 3311-3320. PDF
Bohnenstiel, D.R., Lillis, A., & D.B. Eggleston (2016). The Curious Acoustic Activity of Estuarine Snapping Shrimp: Temporal Patterns of Snapping Shrimp Sound in Sub-tidal Oyster Reef Habitat. PLoS ONE. 11(1): e0143691. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143691.
Lillis, A. & T.A. Mooney (2016). Loudly heard, little seen, and rarely understood: Spatiotemporal variation and environmental drivers of sound production by snapping shrimp. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 27: 010017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/2.0000270.