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Title
Exploring animal behavior through sound. Volume 1, Methods / Christine Erbe, Jeanette A. Thomas, editors.
ISBN
9783030975401 (electronic bk.)
3030975401 (electronic bk.)
9783030975388
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 506 pages) : color illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-97540-1 doi
Call Number
QL765
Dewey Decimal Classification
591.59/4
Summary
This open-access book empowers its readers to explore the acoustic world of animals. By listening to the sounds of nature, we can study animal behavior, distribution, and demographics; their habitat characteristics and needs; and the effects of noise. Sound recording is an efficient and affordable tool, independent of daylight and weather; and recorders may be left in place for many months at a time, continuously collecting data on animals and their environment. This book builds the skills and knowledge necessary to collect and interpret acoustic data from terrestrial and marine environments. Beginning with a history of sound recording, the chapters provide an overview of off-the-shelf recording equipment and analysis tools (including automated signal detectors and statistical methods); audiometric methods; acoustic terminology, quantities, and units; sound propagation in air and under water; soundscapes of terrestrial and marine habitats; animal acoustic and vibrational communication; echolocation; and the effects of noise. This book will be useful to students and researchers of animal ecology who wish to add acoustics to their toolbox, as well as to environmental managers in industry and government.
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Open access
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 19, 2022).
Introduction
Advances in Bioacoustical Methods and Equipment
Data collection methods
Equipment Considerations
Environmental effects on sound
Source-path-receiver Model for airborne sounds
Source-path-receiver Model for underwater sounds
Sound Analysis Methods, Displays, Key acoustic terms
Analysis Displays of animal sounds
Statistical analysis and classification methods used in bioacoustical research
Anatomical, behavioral, and physiological methods for audiometric studies on animals
Effects of anthropogenic noise by taxa
Future equipment, methods, and analysis in bioacoustics
Glossary of Terms.
