Ecoacoustics (eBook)

EDITED BY ALMO FARINA is Professor of Ecology, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, Urbino University, Italy. He is interested in developing theories in landscape ecology and ecoacoustics. He has published more than 270 reports, articles and books on zoology, eco-ethology, bird community ecology, landscape ecology, landscape changes, rural landscape modification, eco-semiotics, code biology, ecoacoustics, soundscape ecology, and ecological theories. STUART H. GAGE is Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Stuart retired after about 30 years as Professor of Entomology. He received the University Distinguished Faculty Award and the University Outreach and Engagement Campus Fellow at Michigan State University. Stuart continues as Director of the Remote Environmental Assessment Laboratory. His current research focuses on application of ecological sensors, analysis of acoustic sensor observations and cyber infrastructure and he collaborates with colleagues in all realms of acoustics. The study of ecological acoustics has enabled Stuart to record the soundscape in many places using automated sensors. Many of these recordings are analyzed, stored, and are publicly accessible in a digital acoustics library (http://www.real.msu.edu).

List of Contributors xiii

Preface xv

1 Ecoacoustics: A New Science 1
Almo Farina and Stuart H. Gage

2 The Duality of Sounds: Ambient and Communication 13
Almo Farina and Stuart H. Gage

3 The Role of Sound in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Three Case Examples from Michigan, USA 31
Stuart H. Gage and Almo Farina

4 The Role of Sound in the Aquatic Environment 61
Francesco Filiciotto and Giuseppa Buscaino

5 The Acoustic Chorus and its Ecological Significance 81
Almo Farina and Maria Ceraulo

6 The Ecological Effects of Noise on Species and Communities 95
Almo Farina

7 Biodiversity Assessment in Temperate Biomes using Ecoacoustics 109
Almo Farina and Nadia Pieretti

8 Biodiversity Assessment in Tropical Biomes using Ecoacoustics: Linking Soundscape to Forest Structure in a Human-dominated Tropical Dry Forest in Southern Madagascar 129
Lyndsay Rankin and Anne C. Axel

9 Biodiversity Assessment and Environmental Monitoring in Freshwater and Marine Biomes using Ecoacoustics 145
Denise Risch and Susan E. Parks

10 Integrating Biophony into Biodiversity Measurement and Assessment 169
Brian Michael Napoletano

11 Landscape Patterns and Soundscape Processes 193
Almo Farina and Susan Fuller

12 Connecting Soundscapes to Landscapes: Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Sound 211
Timothy C. Mullet

13 Soil Acoustics 225
Marisol A. Quintanilla-Tornel

14 Fundamentals of Soundscape Conservation 235
Gianni Pavan

15 Urban Acoustics: Heartbeat of Lansing, Michigan, USA 259
Stuart H. Gage and Wooyeong Joo

16 Analytical Methods in Ecoacoustics 273
Stuart H. Gage, Michael Towsey and Eric P. Kasten

17 Ecoacoustics and its Expression through the Voice of the Arts: An Essay 297
David Monacchi and Bernie Krause

18 Ecoacoustics Challenges 313
Stuart H. Gage and Almo Farina



Index 321