Publications and communications of Xavier Raick

Raick, X. (2025). Diversity of the biophony of Polynesian photic and mesophotic coral reefs. Cybium. doi:10.26028/cybium/2025-024

Raick, X., Lecchini, D., & Parmentier, E. (2025). Exploring potential fish sound producers in Polynesian lower mesophotic coral reefs. Coral Reefs. doi:10.1007/s00338-025-02699-6

Raick, X., Campisi, J., Under The Pole Consortium, Bertucci, F., Lecchini, D., Di Iorio, L., & Parmentier, E. (2025). Depth-dependent dynamics and acoustic niche partitioning of fish sounds in mesophotic coral reefs. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 109336. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109336

Raick, X., Gervaise, C., Lecchini, D., & Parmentier, E. (2025). Limitations of α-acoustic diversity indices in assessing invertebrate sounds in coral reefs. Bioacoustics. doi:10.1080/09524622.2025.2474482

Raick, X., Kurchevski, G., & Godinho, A. L. (2025). Stridulation sounds of the pacamã Lophiosilurus alexandri Steindachner, 1876 (Pseudopimelodidae), a threatened endemic Brazilian catfish. Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.70001

Darras, K. F. A., Rountree, R. A., Van Wilgenburg, S. L., Cord, A. F., Pitz, F., Chen, Y., Dong, L., Rocquencourt, A., Desjonquères, C., Diaz, P. M., Lin, T. H., Turco, T., Emmerson, L., Bradfer‐Lawrence, T., Gasc, A., Marley, S., Salton, M., Schillé, L., Wensveen, P. J., ... Wanger, T. C. (2025). Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34 (5). doi:10.1111/geb.70021

Parmentier, E., Eche, L., Greeven, C., Banse, M., Bertucci, F., Thiry, M., Raick, X., Donaldson, T. J., & Lecchini, D. (2025). Morphological innovations and evolutionary transitions in boxfish acoustic communication. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 146 (2). doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blaf079

Rabasco, F., Munguia-Vega, A., Raick, X., Parmentier, E., Hernández, L., Huato-Soberanis, L., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Sánchez-Ortiz, C., & Olivier, D. (2025). Black coral patches and reef fish diversity: An integrative multidisciplinary approach. Marine Environmental Research, 211, 107401. doi:10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107401

Raick, X., & Baccus, B. (2025). Comparison of ichthyological acoustic communities based on ichthyological communities: A case study from protected and non-protected marine areas of Moorea Island (French Polynesia). Journal for Nature Conservation, 87, 127008. doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2025.127008

Raick, X., Parmentier, E., Lecchini, D., Gervaise, C., Bertucci, F., Iwankow, G., Chancerelle, Y., Siu, G., & Di Iorio, L. (2025). Highlighting the resilience potential of marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching with passive acoustic monitoring. Royal Society Open Science, 12 (7). doi:10.1098/rsos.241938

Raick, X., Vendrame, M., Lecchini, D., & Parmentier, E. (2025). Evidence of vertical stratification in marine environments: insights from passive acoustic monitoring in French Polynesia. Deep-Sea Research. Part I, Oceanographic Research Papers, 223, 104548. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2025.104548

Raick, X., Mery, E., Carpentier, C., Krimou, S., Sowinski, J., Sowinski, L., Roux, N., Maueau, T., & Lecchini, D. (2024). Temporal shifts in algal and fish assemblages following the introduction of herbivorous species in coral reef patches (Bora Bora Island). Journal for Nature Conservation, 126761. doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2024.126761

Krimou, S.* , Raick, X.* , Mery, E., Carlot, J., Carpentier, C., Sowinski, J., Sowinski, L., Minier, L., Roux, N., Maueau, T., Bertucci, F.* , & Lecchini, D.*. (2024). Restoring the reef: Coral restoration yields rapid impacts on certain fish assemblages. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 302, 108734. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2024.108734

Raick, X., Parmentier, E., Gervaise, C., Lecchini, D., Under The Pole Consortium, Pérez-Rosales, G., Rouzé, H., Bertucci, F., & Di Iorio, L. (2024). Invertebrate sounds from photic to mesophotic coral reefs reveal vertical stratification and diel diversity. Oecologia, 205 (2), 307 - 322. doi:10.1007/s00442-024-05572-5

Minier, L.* , Bertucci, F.* , Raick, X.* , Gairin, E., Bischoff, H., Waqalevu, V., Maueau, T., Sturny, V., Blin, E., Parmentier, E., & Lecchini, D.*. (2023). Characterization of the different sound sources within the soundscape of coastline reef habitats (Bora Bora, French Polynesia). Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 108551. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108551

Parmentier, E., Raick, X., Leblanc, N., Santoni-Guichard, G., Banse, M., Da, S. J. D. D., & Van Damme, A. (29 August 2023). Acoustic innovations in courtship sounds generated by hybridization in cichlid fish. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 200, 755-762. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad094

Raick, X., Di Iorio, L., Lecchini, D., Gervaise, C., Hédouin, L., Under The Pole Consortium, Pérez-Rosales, G., Rouzé, H., Bertucci, F., & Parmentier, E. (2023). Fish sounds of photic and mesophotic coral reefs: variation with depth and type of island. Coral Reefs. doi:10.1007/s00338-022-02343-7

Krimou, S., Gairin, E., Gautrand, L., Sowinski, J., Trotier, M., Minier, L., Bischoff, H., Sturny, V., Maueau, T., Waqalevu, V., Bulleri, F., Raick, X., Bertucci, F., & Lecchini, D. (2023). Herbivory effects of sea urchin species on a coral reef (Bora-Bora, French Polynesia). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 564, 151900. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2023.151900

Laboury, S., Raick, X., Lecchini, D., & Parmentier, E. (2023). Clownfish triggers plasticity in the acoustic communication of the three-spot damselfish. Marine Biology, 170 (9), 112. doi:10.1007/s00227-023-04259-4

Minier, L.* , Raick, X.* , Gairin, E., Maueau, T., Sturny, V., Blin, E., Parmentier, E., Bertucci, F., & Lecchini, D. (2023). ‘Habitat-associated soundscape’ hypothesis tested on several coral reefs within a lagoon (Bora-Bora Island, French Polynesia). Marine Biology, 170 (5). doi:10.1007/s00227-023-04206-3

Raick, X. (2023). À l’écoute des profondeurs des récifs coralliens de Polynésie : le décryptage du whoot. Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, 92 (1), 171-187. doi:10.25518/0037-9565.11473

Raick, X., Collet, P., Under The Pole Consortium, Lecchini, D., Bertucci, F., & Parmentier, E. (2023). Diel cycle of two recurrent fish sounds from mesophotic coral reefs. Scientia Marina, 87 (4), 078. doi:10.3989/scimar.05395.078

Raick, X., Di Iorio, L., Lecchini, D., Bolgan, M., & Parmentier, E. (2023). “To be, or not to be”: critical assessment of the use of α-acoustic diversity indices to evaluate the richness and abundance of coastal marine fish sounds. Journal of Ecoacoustics, 7 (1), 1-25. doi:10.35995/jea7010001

Raick, X., Godinho, A. L., Kurchevski, G., Huby, A., & Parmentier, E. (2023). Bioacoustics supports genus identification in piranhas. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154 (4), 2203 - 2210. doi:10.1121/10.0021308

Raick, X., Koussa, A., Zawadzki, C. H., Kurchevski, G., Godinho, A. L., & Parmentier, E. (2022). Sounds and associated morphology of Hypostomus species from South-East Brazil. Journal of Zoology, 317 (2), 77-91. doi:10.1111/jzo.12967

Raick, X., Thelen, N., Compère, P., & Parmentier, E. (2022). Ultrastructure of sonic muscles of piranhas (Serrasalmidae). Journal of Morphology, 283 (4), 395-405. doi:10.1002/jmor.21450

Raick, X., Di Iorio, L., Gervaise, C., Lossent, J., Lecchini, D., & Parmentier, E. (2021). From the reef to the ocean: revealing the acoustic range of the biophony of a coral reef (Moorea Island, French Polynesia). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9 (4), 420. doi:10.3390/jmse9040420

Raick, X., Rountree, R., Kurchevski, G., Juanes, F., Huby, A., Godinho, A. L., & Parmentier, E. (2021). Acoustic homogeneity in the piranha Serrasalmus maculatus. Journal of Fish Biology, 98 (5), 1303-1307. doi:10.1111/jfb.14662

Parmentier, E., Marucco Fuentes, E., Millot, M., Raick, X., & Thiry, M. (2020). Sound production, hearing sensitivity, and in-depth study of the sound-producing muscles in the cowfish (Lactoria cornuta). Journal of Anatomy. doi:10.1111/joa.13353

Raick, X., Huby, A., Kurchevski, G., Godinho, A. L., & Parmentier, E. (2020). Use of bioacoustics in species identification: Piranhas from genus Pygocentrus (Teleostei: Serrasalmidae) as a case study. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0241316

Bolgan, M., Gervaise, C., Di Iorio, L., Lossent, J., Lejeune, P., Raick, X., & Parmentier, E. (2020). Fish biophony in a Mediterranean submarine canyon. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. doi:10.1121/10.0001101

Bertucci, F., Maratrat, K., Berthe, C., Besson, M., Guerra, A. S., Raick, X., Lerouvreur, F., Lecchini, D., & Parmentier, E. (2020). Local sonic activity reveals potential partitioning in a coral reef fish community. Oecologia, 193, 125-134. doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04647-3

Raick, X., Huby, A., Kurchevski, G., Godinho, A. L., & Parmentier, E. (2020). Yellow-eyed piranhas produce louder sounds than red-eyed piranhas in an invasive population of Serrasalmus marginatus. Journal of Fish Biology, 97 (6), 1676-1680. doi:10.1111/jfb.14529

Melotte, G., Raick, X., Vigouroux, R., & Parmentier, E. (2019). Origin and evolution of sound production in Serrasalmidae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1-12. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blz105

Parmentier, E., Solagna, L., Bertucci, F., Fine, M. L., Nakae, Compère, P., Smeets, S., Raick, X., & Lecchini, D. (2019). Simultaneous production of two kinds of sounds in relation with sonic mechanism in the boxfsh Ostracion meleagris and O. cubicus. Scientific Reports, 9, 4962. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-41198-x

Di Iorio, L.* , Raick, X.* , Parmentier, E., Boissery, P., Valentini-Poirier, C.-A., & Gervaise, C. (2018). ‘Posidonia meadows calling’: a ubiquitous fish sound with monitoring potential. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. doi:10.1002/rse2.72

Raick, X., Lecchini, D., Kever, L., Colleye, O., Bertucci, F., & Parmentier, E. (2018). Sound production mechanism in triggerfish (Balistidae): a synapomorphy. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221 (1), 168948. doi:10.1242/jeb.168948

Parmentier, E., Raick, X., Lecchini, D., Boyle, K., Vanwassenbergh, S., Bertucci, F., & Kever, L. (2017). Unusual sound production mechanism in the triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus (Balistidae). Journal of Experimental Biology, 220 (2), 186-193. doi:10.1242/jeb.146514

Raick, X., Parmentier, E., & Lecchini, D. (2016). Circling and touching: two new behaviours in the courtship of the Picasso triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Marine Biodiversity, 1-2. doi:10.1007/s12526-016-0464-7

Raick, X. (2024). Poissons profonds de Bora-Bora. In D. Lecchini & C. Berthe, Mon Manuel d’Ecologie Corallienne - Bora Bora (pp. 94-98). San Francisco, United States - California: BookBaby Publishing.

Raick, X. (2024). A l’écoute des récifs mésophotiques. In D. Lecchini & C. Berthe, Mon Manuel d’Ecologie Corallienne - Bora Bora (pp. 122-126). San Francisco, United States - California: BookBaby Publishing.