ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Chronic anthropogenic noise disrupts glucocorticoid signaling and has multiple effects on fitness in an avian community.
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The combined effects of elevated predation risk and anthropogenic noise on dwarf mongoose vigilance behaviour.Biology letters · 2025Article
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- Contrasting effects of shooting disturbance on the movement and behavior of sympatric wildfowl species.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2024Article
- Experimental playback of urban noise does not affect cognitive performance in captive Australian magpies.Biology open · 2024Article
- Anthropogenic noise interacts with the predation risk assessment in a free-ranging bird.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Investigating the impact of anthropogenic noise on the decision-making of dwarf mongoose offspring.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Anthropogenic noise and habitat structure shaping dominant frequency of bird sounds along urban gradients.iScience · 2024Article
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- Consistent traffic noise impacts few fitness-related traits in a field cricket.BMC ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Baseline Corticosterone, Stress Responses, and Leukocyte Profiles in Chicks of Precocial Birds in Rural and Urban Environments.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A multidimensional framework to quantify the effects of urbanization on avian breeding fitness.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
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Abstract
Anthropogenic noise is a pervasive pollutant that decreases environmental quality by disrupting a suite of behaviors vital to perception and communication. However, even within populations of noise-sensitive species, individuals still select breeding sites located within areas exposed to high noise levels, with largely unknown physiological and fitness consequences. We use a study system in the natural gas fields of northern New Mexico to test the prediction that exposure to noise causes glucocorticoid-signaling dysfunction and decreases fitness in a community of secondary cavity-nesting birds. In accordance with these predictions, and across all species, we find strong support for noise exposure decreasing baseline corticosterone in adults and nestlings and, conversely, increasing acute stressor-induced corticosterone in nestlings. We also document fitness consequences with increased noise in the form of reduced hatching success in the western bluebird (
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