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Road traffic noise modifies behaviour of a keystone species
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In this paper, the influence of road traffic noise on foraging and vigilance in a keystone species in North American prairie systems, the prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, was investigated.About:
This article is published in Animal Behaviour.The article was published on 2014-08-01. It has received 122 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Traffic noise & Vigilance (behavioural ecology).read more
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A synthesis of two decades of research documenting the effects of noise on wildlife
Graeme Shannon,Megan F. McKenna,Lisa M. Angeloni,Kevin R. Crooks,Kurt M. Fristrup,Emma Brown,Katy A. Warner,Misty D. Nelson,Cecilia L. White,Jessica Briggs,Scott McFarland,George Wittemyer +11 more
TL;DR: A systematic and standardised review of the scientific literature published from 1990 to 2013 on the effects of anthropogenic noise on wildlife, including both terrestrial and aquatic studies shows that terrestrial wildlife responses begin at noise levels of approximately 40’dBA, and 20% of papers documented impacts below 50 dBA.
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A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound.
John P. Swaddle,Clinton D. Francis,Jesse R. Barber,Caren B. Cooper,Christopher C. M. Kyba,Davide M. Dominoni,Graeme Shannon,Erik T. Aschehoug,Sarah E. Goodwin,Akito Y. Kawahara,David Luther,Kamiel Spoelstra,Margaret A. Voss,Travis Longcore +13 more
TL;DR: This work presents a framework for investigating anthropogenic light and noise as agents of selection, and as drivers of other evolutionary processes, to influence a range of behavioral and physiological traits such as phenological characters and sensory and signaling systems.
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A phantom road experiment reveals traffic noise is an invisible source of habitat degradation.
TL;DR: It is found that noise, apart from other factors present near roads, degrades the value of habitat for migrating songbirds, and that the presence of a species does not indicate the absence of an impact.
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Testing environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in Peru: The role of renewable electricity, petroleum and dry natural gas
Manuel A. Zambrano-Monserrate,Carlos A. Silva-Zambrano,Jose L. Davalos-Penafiel,Andrea Zambrano-Monserrate,Maria Alejandra Ruano +4 more
Abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between GDP (gross domestic product), carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of energy, total renewable electricity consumption, dry natural gas consumption, and total petroleum consumption (all variables are in per capita terms) for Peru during 1980–2011. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) methodology was used to test a cointegration relationship, and the Granger causality test, based on the vector error correction model (VECM), was used to test for causality. An innovative criterion proposed by Narayan and Narayan (2010) was employed to test the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. The study does not support an inverted U-shaped EKC relationship. For this reason, it is urgent that Peru designs environmental policies that minimize the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) using alternative energy sources e.g. solar, wind, hydraulics, among others. In addition, we found an unidirectional causality relationship between CO2 emissions and their determinants.
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Humans as a Hyperkeystone Species.
Boris Worm,Robert T. Paine +1 more
TL;DR: Human beings are identified as a higher-order or 'hyperkeystone' species that drives complex interaction chains by affecting other keystone actors across different habitats, which requires better understanding of hyperkeystone interaction chains most urgently.
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