Comparative bioacoustics: a roadmap for quantifying and comparing animal sounds across diverse taxa

KJ Odom, M Araya‐Salas, JL Morano… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Animals produce a wide array of sounds with highly variable acoustic structures. It is
possible to understand the causes and consequences of this variation across taxa with …

Background Acoustics in Terrestrial Ecology

CD Francis, JN Phillips, JR Barber - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The way in which terrestrial organisms use the acoustic realm is fundamentally important
and shapes behavior, populations, and communities, but how background acoustics, or …

[HTML][HTML] Soundscape diversity: Evaluation indices of the sound environment in urban green spaces–Effectiveness, role, and interpretation

Y Xiang, Q Meng, X Zhang, M Li, D Yang, Y Wu - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban green space sound sources play an important role in providing people with high
quality recreation experiences. However, the evaluation index for urban green space sound …

Robust sound event detection in bioacoustic sensor networks

V Lostanlen, J Salamon, A Farnsworth, S Kelling… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Bioacoustic sensors, sometimes known as autonomous recording units (ARUs), can record
sounds of wildlife over long periods of time in scalable and minimally invasive ways …

Soundscapes of urban parks: An innovative approach for ecosystem monitoring and adaptive management

Y Zhao, S Sheppard, Z Sun, Z Hao, J Jin, Z Bai… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban foresters are addressing the challenge of urban biodiversity loss through
management plans in the context of rapid urbanization. Protecting the integrity of the urban …

Using the past to understand the present: coping with natural and anthropogenic noise

DGE Gomes, CD Francis, JR Barber - BioScience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Anthropogenic noise has received significant attention in recent years, and researchers
have highlighted the ways in which animals might deal with these noise sources. However …

Weather conditions determine attenuation and speed of sound: Environmental limitations for monitoring and analyzing bat echolocation

HR Goerlitz - Ecology and evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Echolocating bats are regularly studied to investigate auditory‐guided behaviors and as
important bioindicators. Bioacoustic monitoring methods based on echolocation calls are …

Noise impairs the perception of song performance in blue tits and increases territorial response

SR de Kort, G Porcedda, H Slabbekoorn, HL Mossman… - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Details in birdsong parameters convey information about fitness, quality and motivational
state of the signaller. Perception of these song details may affect decision making of …

Aircraft sound exposure leads to song frequency decline and elevated aggression in wild chiffchaffs

AD Wolfenden, H Slabbekoorn, K Kluk… - Journal of Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ubiquitous anthropogenic low‐frequency noise impedes communication by masking
animal signals. To overcome this communication barrier, animals may increase the …

Assessing the effect of sound file compression and background noise on measures of acoustic signal structure

M Araya-Salas, G Smith-Vidaurre, M Webster - Bioacoustics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The study of animal acoustic signals is a central tool for many fields in ecology and
evolution, but the diversity of analytical methods and sources of animal sound recordings …