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

By transforming landscapes, human activity creates new types of habitats with altered
environmental characteristics that never existed before. As the process of habitat …

Anthropogenic noise threatens ecological systems, including the cultural and biodiversity
resources in protected areas. Using continental-scale sound models, we found that …

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

Anthropogenic pollution is increasingly pervasive throughout all ecosystems worldwide. In
recent years, negative consequences on many taxa, such as birds, have been observed. We …

Explaining how animals respond to an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge for
evolutionary biologists. Urban environments often present animals with novel problems that …

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 …

Over the last century, humans have modified landscapes, generated pollution and provided
opportunities for exotic species to invade areas where they did not evolve. In addition …

There are substantial concerns that increasing levels of anthropogenic noise in the oceans
may impact aquatic animals. Noise can affect animals physically, physiologically and …