Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape
Bryan C. Pijanowski,Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera,Sarah L. Dumyahn,Almo Farina,Bernie Krause,Brian M. Napoletano,Stuart H. Gage,Nadia Pieretti +7 more
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This article presents a unifying theory of soundscape ecology, which brings the idea of the soundscape—the collection of sounds that emanate from landscapes—into a research and application focus and proposes a research agenda that includes six areas.Abstract:
This article presents a unifying theory of soundscape ecology, which brings the idea of the soundscape—the collection of sounds that emanate from landscapes—into a research and application focus. Our conceptual framework of soundscape ecology is based on the causes and consequences of biological (biophony), geophysical (geophony), and human-produced (anthrophony) sounds. We argue that soundscape ecology shares many parallels with landscape ecology, and it should therefore be considered a branch of this maturing field. We propose a research agenda for soundscape ecology that includes six areas: (1) measurement and analytical challenges, (2) spatial-temporal dynamics, (3) soundscape linkage to environmental covariates, (4) human impacts on the soundscape, (5) soundscape impacts on humans, and (6) soundscape impacts on ecosystems. We present case studies that illustrate different approaches to understanding soundscape dynamics. Because soundscapes are our auditory link to nature, we also argue for their prot...read more
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What is soundscape ecology? An introduction and overview of an emerging new science
TL;DR: Soundscape ecology as discussed by the authors is a new area of research focusing on how sound from various sources (biological, geophysical and anthropogenic) can be used to understand coupled natural-human dynamics across different spatial and temporal scales.
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Real-time bioacoustics monitoring and automated species identification
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Measuring acoustic habitats
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TL;DR: The signal processing techniques needed to produce calibrated measurements of terrestrial and aquatic acoustic habitats are reviewed and a supplemental tutorial and template computer codes in matlab and r are included, which give detailed guidance on how to production calibrated spectrograms and statistical analyses of sound levels.
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Acoustic Indices for Biodiversity Assessment and Landscape Investigation
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Monitoring animal diversity using acoustic indices: Implementation in a temperate woodland
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TL;DR: In this paper, an acoustic analysis of choruses produced by animal communities was carried out to assess α and β diversity in three woodland habitats: a mature forest, a young forest and a forest-cropland ecotone within the Parc Naturel Regional of Haute-Vallee de Chevreuse (France).
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