A review of ecological factors promoting road use by mammals

JE Hill, TL DeVault, JL Belant - Mammal Review, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Roads have numerous negative impacts for mammals, but may also serve as attractants due
to altered vegetation or provisioning of resources. We reviewed the use of roads and their …

How chronic anthropogenic noise can affect wildlife communities

ACM Kok, BW Berkhout, NV Carlson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic noise is a major pollutant in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Since the
industrial revolution, human activities have become increasingly noisy, leading to both acute …

Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

MA Tucker, AM Schipper, TSF Adams, N Attias, T Avgar… - Science, 2023 - science.org
COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to
disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data …

Evidence of the impact of noise pollution on biodiversity: A systematic map

R Sordello, O Ratel, F Flamerie De Lachapelle… - Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Background Ecological research now deals increasingly with the effects of noise pollution
on biodiversity. Indeed, many studies have shown the impacts of anthropogenic noise and …

Approaches to understanding the cumulative effects of stressors on marine mammals

National Academies of Sciences, Medicine… - 2017 - books.google.com
Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and
noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine …

The effects of noise on animals

C Erbe, ML Dent, WL Gannon, RD McCauley… - … animal behavior through …, 2022 - Springer
This chapter describes the effects of noise on animals in terrestrial and aquatic habitats.
Potential adverse effects cover a range of behavioral changes and physiological responses …

Why does noise reduce response to alarm calls? Experimental assessment of masking, distraction and greater vigilance in wild birds

Y Zhou, AN Radford, RD Magrath - Functional Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental noise from anthropogenic and other sources affects many aspects of animal
ecology and behaviour, including acoustic communication. Acoustic masking is often …

Anthropogenic noise disrupts use of vocal information about predation risk

JM Kern, AN Radford - Environmental Pollution, 2016 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic noise is rapidly becoming a universal environmental feature. While the
impacts of such additional noise on avian sexual signals are well documented, our …

[HTML][HTML] Eavesdrop** grey squirrels infer safety from bird chatter

MV Lilly, EC Lucore, KA Tarvin - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
When multiple species are vulnerable to a common set of predators, it is advantageous for
individuals to recognize information about the environment provided by other species …

Effects of ambient noise on zebra finch vigilance and foraging efficiency

JC Evans, SRX Dall, CR Kight - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Ambient noise can affect the availability of acoustic information to animals, altering both
foraging and vigilance behaviour. Using captive zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata, we …