【报告题目】Noise pollution matters: The soundscape as an important ecological niche axis

【报告主讲人】Professor Jesse R. Barber, Boise State University

【报告主持人】罗金红教授，华中师范大学

【报告时间】 2022年10月26日（周三），上午9:00 (Beijing Time)

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Anthropogenic noise has received significant attention in recent years, and it is clear that noise is indeed an ecological pollutant. However, much of our understanding of animal responses to this novel source of background acoustics lacks an evolutionary perspective. Here, I outline approximately 10 years of research from my lab on anthropogenic (roadway traffic, energy extraction, human voices) and natural noise (whitewater rivers, crashing ocean surf) and how these acoustic environments change animal behaviors, distributions, and fitness. We take a mechanistic approach both for a more complete understanding of ecological phenomena and to inform noise mitigation strategies.

1.Gomes DGE, Toth CA, Cole HJ, Francis CD, Barber JR (2021). Phantom rivers filter birds and bats by acoustic niche. Nature Communications 12 (1), 1-8.

2.Gomes DGE, Francis CD, Barber JR (2021). Using past to understand present: coping with natural and anthropogenic noise. Bioscience. 71 (3), 223-234. 

3.Dominoni DM, Halfwerk W, Baird E, Buxton RT, Fernàndez-Juricic E, Fristrup KM, McKenna MF, Mennitt Perkin EK, DJ, Seymoure BM, Stoner DC, Tennessen JB, Toth CA, Tyrrell LP, Wilson A, Francis CD, Carter NH, Barber JR (2020). Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 16:1-10.

4.Ware HE, McClure CJW, Carlisle J, Barber JR (2015) A phantom road experiment reveals traffic noise is an invisible source of habitat degradation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(39):12105-12109.

5.Barber JR, Crooks K, Fristrup K (2010) The costs of chronic noise exposure for terrestrial organisms. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 25(3):180-189.