A synthesis of two decades of research documenting the effects of noise on wildlife

G Shannon, MF McKenna, LM Angeloni… - Biological …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global increases in environmental noise levels–arising from expansion of human
populations, transportation networks, and resource extraction–have catalysed a recent …

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

H Lowry, A Lill, BBM Wong - Biological reviews, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Increased urbanization represents a formidable challenge for wildlife. Nevertheless, a few
species appear to thrive in the evolutionarily novel environment created by cities …

A new methodology to infer the singing activity of an avian community: The Acoustic Complexity Index (ACI)

N Pieretti, A Farina, D Morri - Ecological indicators, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The animal soundscape is a field of growing interest because of the implications it has for
human–landscape interactions. Yet, it continues to be a difficult subject to investigate, due to …

Ecological functions and human benefits of urban forests

LE O'Brien, RE Urbanek, JD Gregory - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The recent sprawl of urbanization in the Eastern US perpetuated by population growth and
economic success has caused landscapes to become vulnerable to degradation. As urban …

Artificial light at night advances avian reproductive physiology

D Dominoni, M Quetting… - Proceedings of the …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Artificial light at night is a rapidly increasing phenomenon and it is presumed to have global
implications. Light at night has been associated with health problems in humans as a …

Songs of the city: noise-dependent spectral plasticity in the acoustic phenotype of urban birds

H Slabbekoorn - Animal Behaviour, 2013‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Bird song and anthropogenic noise: vocal constraints may explain why birds sing higher-frequency songs in cities

E Nemeth, N Pieretti, SA Zollinger… - … of the Royal …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
When animals live in cities, they have to adjust their behaviour and life histories to novel
environments. Noise pollution puts a severe constraint on vocal communication by …

The emerging significance of bioacoustics in animal species conservation

P Laiolo - Biological conservation, 2010‏ - Elsevier
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 …

The importance of invertebrates when considering the impacts of anthropogenic noise

EL Morley, G Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropogenic noise is now recognized as a major global pollutant. Rapidly burgeoning
research has identified impacts on individual behaviour and physiology through to …

Chapter 2: Effects of noise pollution on birds: A brief review of our knowledge

CP Ortega - Ornithological monographs, 2012‏ - JSTOR
Many avian species have long been exposed to loud natural sounds such as streams,
waterfalls, and wind. However, anthropogenic noise pollution is a relatively recent …