SynthesisGlobal change biology2021
Species sensitivities to a global pollutant: A meta-analysis on acoustic signals in response to anthropogenic noise.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A meta-analysis on the evolution of the Lombard effect reveals that amplitude adjustments are a widespread vertebrate mechanism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Pooled it
- Species sensitivities to a global pollutant: A meta-analysis on acoustic signals in response to anthropogenic noise.Global change biology · 2021Pooled it
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- Free-ranging livestock grazing shifts the acoustic community in a northeast Asian temperate forest.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Galápagos yellow warblers differ in behavioural plasticity in response to traffic noise depending on proximity to road.Animal behaviour · 2025Article
- Anthropogenic disturbance affects calling and collective behaviour in corvid roosts.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023Review
- Airport noise disturbs foraging behavior of Japanese pipistrelle bats.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Anthropogenic noise may impair the mating behaviour of the Shore Crab Carcinus Maenas.PloS one · 2022Article
- Frequency masking drives species-specific temporal avoidance strategies in boreal songbirds.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Non-breeding European robins adjust their song in noisy environments.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Anthropogenically driven environmental changes affect our planet at an unprecedented rate. Among these changes are those in the acoustic environment caused by anthropogenic noise, which can affect both animals and humans. In many species, acoustic communication plays a crucial role to maintain social relationships by exchanging information via acoustic signals. However, how species relying on acoustic communication differ in their adjustments to anthropogenic noise is little understood. Yet, this is crucial because protecting species effectively depends on our capability to predict how species differ in their response to human-induced environmental changes. Using a phylogenetically controlled meta-analysis, we quantified differences in adjustments of acoustic signals to anthropogenic noise among species. The effect sizes included in the analysis were obtained from noise exposure experiments, as only carefully controlled experiments allow to establish cause-and-effect relationships. We found that animals changed acoustic signals when exposed to noise, but the magnitude and the direction of adjustments differed among species. Given the importance of communication in the animal kingdom, these adjustments can affect social relationships in many species. The diversity of responses among species highlights the necessity to assess the effect of environmental stressors not only for a few species, because an effect may be positive in one species but negative in another depending on the species' biology. Thus, an effective conservation approach to protect different species is to preserve natural soundscapes of ecosystems to which species have adapted to by reducing or mitigating the emission of anthropogenic noise into the environment.
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