Many biologists are asking whether environmentally initiated phenotypic change
(ie,'phenotypic plasticity') precedes, and even facilitates, evolutionary adaptation. However …

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 …

Anthropogenic (man-made) noise has changed the acoustic environment both on land and
underwater and is now recognized as a pollutant of international concern. Increasing …

Anthropogenic noise is now recognized as a major global pollutant. Rapidly burgeoning
research has identified impacts on individual behaviour and physiology through to …

The development and presence of roads can reduce landscape permeability, lead to habitat
loss, and increase habitat fragmentation. It is these fundamental changes in landscape …

Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; apopper@ umd. edu One
of the “problems” in working with aquatic animals is that they are not nearly as easy to …

Habitat loss and fragmentation represent two of the most significant threats to biodiversity. In
some regions, like the Brazilian Cerrado, the deforestation rate can reach nearly 1 million …

Noise exposure has reached an alarming degree over the years because of rapid growth in
the industry, transportation, and urbanization. Therefore, it is a dire need to provide …

Birds use acoustic signals to mediate a number of crucial social interactions such as
territorial defence, mate attraction and predator avoidance. Thus, differences in signalling …

Rights‐of‐way (ROW) that enable the transport of humans, goods, and energy (eg roads
and road verges, railways and embankments, and power lines and the corridors they …