The quest for cleaner energy has caused governments to expand renewable energy
infrastructure, including wind turbine farms. However, wind turbines (WTs) can also pose a …

Many organisms depend on sound for communication, predator/prey detection and
navigation. The acoustic environment can therefore play an important role in ecosystem …

The sounds produced by animals have been a topic of research into animal behaviour for a
very long time. If acoustic signals are undoubtedly a vehicle for exchanging information …

Anthropogenic noise is an important environmental stressor that is rapidly gaining attention
among biologists, resource managers, and policy makers. Here we review a substantial …

The world is full of sounds that are shared by humans and many other organisms, but little is
known about the role and importance of the acoustic context to guide evolutionary …

Tourist travel contributes greatly to transport problems in highly attractive tourist areas.
Despite that, local travel behavior of visitors at the destination has hardly been investigated …

Many authors have suggested that the negative effects of roads on animals are largely
owing to traffic noise. Although suggestive, most past studies of the effects of road noise on …

Climate change is an important cause of the irreversible transformation of habitats, of the
rapid extinction of species, and of the dramatic changes in entire communities, especially for …

The present study analyses the effects of the physical characteristics of the visual landscape
on soundscape perception in city parks, based on information gathered in field surveys …

The majority of the world population is now inhabiting urban areas, and with staggering
population growth, urbanization is also increasing. While the work studying the effects of …