Global increases in environmental noise levels–arising from expansion of human
populations, transportation networks, and resource extraction–have catalysed a recent …

Increased urbanization represents a formidable challenge for wildlife. Nevertheless, a few
species appear to thrive in the evolutionarily novel environment created by cities …

While human-induced rapid environmental changes are putting many organisms at risk of
extinction, others are doing better than ever. This raises the question of why organisms differ …

I outline how understanding the mechanism of behavioural plasticity is important for
predicting how organisms will respond to rapidly changing and novel environments. I define …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1052–1061 Abstract The scope and magnitude of anthropogenic
noise pollution are often much greater than those of natural noise and are predicted to have …

Urban habitats and landscapes are markedly different from nonurban “natural” habitats. The
major difference is the transformation of the land, from natural green areas to anthropogenic …

Traffic affects large areas of natural habitat worldwide. As a result, the acoustic signals used
by birds and other animals are increasingly masked by traffic noise. Masking of signals …

On the occasion of the centenary of the discovery of the Lombard effect, we review the
literature on noise-dependent regulation of vocal amplitude in humans and other animals …

Urbanization leads to homogenization of avian communities through local extinction of rare
bird species and increasing numbers of the same common urban bird species over large …

This review reports on the effects of human activities on animal acoustic signals published in
the literature from 1970 to 2009. Almost 5% of the studies on variation in animal …