The costs of chronic noise exposure for terrestrial organisms

Barber, Jesse R.; Crooks, Kevin R.; Fristrup, Kurt M.

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.08.002

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“…Anthropogenic sound is increasingly recognized as a major component of global change in both urban and rural environments (Buxton et al., 2017), but its consequences for species and their interactions remain relatively unknown. Sound is an important part of many species life histories, and consequently, anthropogenic sounds can disrupt these activities and processes (Barber, Crooks, & Fristrup, 2010; Francis, Ortega, & Cruz, 2009; McMahon, Rohr, & Bernal, 2017). While some studies have explored the effects of noise at the individual or intraspecific level, considerably less is known about how anthropogenic sound can influence interactions among species in a community (McMahon et al., 2017).…”

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Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade

Barton

Hodge

Speights

et al. 2018

Ecology and Evolution

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Anthropogenic sound is increasingly considered a major environmental issue, but its effects are relatively unstudied. Organisms may be directly affected by anthropogenic sound in many ways, including interference with their ability to detect mates, predators, or food, and disturbances that directly affect one organism may in turn have indirect effects on others. Thus, to fully appreciate the net effect of anthropogenic sound, it may be important to consider both direct and indirect effects. We report here on a series of experiments to test the hypothesis that anthropogenic sound can generate cascading indirect effects within a community. We used a study system of lady beetles, soybean aphids, and soybean plants, which are a useful model for studying the direct and indirect effects of global change on food webs. For sound treatments, we used several types of music, as well as a mix of urban sounds (e.g., sirens, vehicles, and construction equipment), each at volumes comparable to a busy city street or farm tractor. In 18‐hr feeding trials, rock music and urban sounds caused lady beetles to consume fewer aphids, but other types of music had no effect even at the same volume. We then tested the effect of rock music on the strength of trophic cascades in a 2‐week experiment in plant growth chambers. When exposed to music by AC/DC, who articulated the null hypothesis that “rock and roll ain't noise pollution” in a song of the same name, lady beetles were less effective predators, resulting in higher aphid density and reduced final plant biomass relative to control (no music) treatments. While it is unclear what characteristics of sound generate these effects, our results reject the AC/DC hypothesis and demonstrate that altered interspecific interactions can transmit the indirect effects of anthropogenic noise through a community.

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Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade

Barton

Hodge

Speights

et al. 2018

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Moreover, the behavior of animals, but especially also of birds, is influenced by environmental urban characteristics, for example, noisy backgrounds and/or buildings influence intra‐ and interspecific communication such as acoustic detection of predators and conspecifics (Brumm 2004; Barber et al. 2010; Snell‐Rood 2012; Slabbekoorn 2013), and artificial light during night perturbs circadian and annual rhythms affecting sleep and timing of breeding (Small and Elvidge 2011; Dominoni et al. 2014; Fonken and Nelson 2014; Raap et al.…”

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Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole‐nesting birds

Vaugoyeau

Adriaensen

Artemyev

et al. 2016

Ecology and Evolution

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The increase in size of human populations in urban and agricultural areas has resulted in considerable habitat conversion globally. Such anthropogenic areas have specific environmental characteristics, which influence the physiology, life history, and population dynamics of plants and animals. For example, the date of bud burst is advanced in urban compared to nearby natural areas. In some birds, breeding success is determined by synchrony between timing of breeding and peak food abundance. Pertinently, caterpillars are an important food source for the nestlings of many bird species, and their abundance is influenced by environmental factors such as temperature and date of bud burst. Higher temperatures and advanced date of bud burst in urban areas could advance peak caterpillar abundance and thus affect breeding phenology of birds. In order to test whether laying date advance and clutch sizes decrease with the intensity of urbanization, we analyzed the timing of breeding and clutch size in relation to intensity of urbanization as a measure of human impact in 199 nest box plots across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East (i.e., the Western Palearctic) for four species of hole‐nesters: blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), great tits (Parus major), collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis), and pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca). Meanwhile, we estimated the intensity of urbanization as the density of buildings surrounding study plots measured on orthophotographs. For the four study species, the intensity of urbanization was not correlated with laying date. Clutch size in blue and great tits does not seem affected by the intensity of urbanization, while in collared and pied flycatchers it decreased with increasing intensity of urbanization. This is the first large‐scale study showing a species‐specific major correlation between intensity of urbanization and the ecology of breeding. The underlying mechanisms for the relationships between life history and urbanization remain to be determined. We propose that effects of food abundance or quality, temperature, noise, pollution, or disturbance by humans may on their own or in combination affect laying date and/or clutch size.

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“…Such analysis is justified by the fact that the literature available does not describe this topic, however, mostly focuses on measurements of traffic, industrial and air noise. It is the impact of noise on a human and his environment that is under special analysis [8][9][10][11][12]. Conclusions of such analysis stating for example that the noise that is not bothersome are most often based on the comparison of local noise value stated by the measurements with values stated by the norms.…”

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Noise level arrangement in determined zones of homogenous development of green areas on the example of the spa park in Inowrocław

Sztubecka

Skiba

2016

Open Engineering

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Noise measurements are usually carried out in developed areas as well as in the surroundings of traffic routes providing basis for actions in order to limit its influence on the neighboring areas. Noise measurements in park areas are rare due to belief that these areas are silent zones. Such attitude cannot be justified. This article aims to the assessment of noise appearing in determined subzones of the spa park in Inowrocław. From the research carried out it can be noticed that traffic noise does not have any important meaning for the acoustic climate of the park. It is the people who stay there who generate more noise. Comparative analysis proves the appearance and penetration of noise from the zones with greater level of noise to the ones with lower amount.

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The costs of chronic noise exposure for terrestrial organisms

Cited by 801 publications

References 95 publications

Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade

Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade

Interspecific variation in the relationship between clutch size, laying date and intensity of urbanization in four species of hole‐nesting birds

Noise level arrangement in determined zones of homogenous development of green areas on the example of the spa park in Inowrocław

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