Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Animals
Editors: Slabbekoorn, H., Dooling, R., Popper, A.N., Fay, R.R. (Eds.)
Free Preview- Brings together what is known about effects of sound on vertebrates
- Provides a critical introduction to fundamental principles of hearing and acoustics that are needed by all investigators interested in effects of noise on animals
- Chapters focus on taking what is known about basic hearing principles and applying them to the acoustic world of animals.
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- About this book
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Over the past several years, many investigators interested in the effects of man-made sounds on animals have come to realize that there is much to gain from studying the broader literature on hearing sound and the effects of sound as well as data from the effects on humans. It has also become clear that knowledge of the effects of sound on one group of animals (e.g., birds or frogs) can guide studies on other groups (e.g., marine mammals or fishes) and that a review of all such studies together would be very useful to get a better understanding of the general principles and underlying cochlear and cognitive mechanisms that explain damage, disturbance, and deterrence across taxa.
The purpose of this volume, then, is to provide a comprehensive review of the effects of man-made sounds on animals, with the goal of fulfilling two major needs. First, it was thought to be important to bring together data on sound and bioacoustics that have implications across all taxa (including humans) so that such information is generally available to the community of scholars interested in the effects of sound. This is done in Chaps. 2-5. Second, in Chaps. 6-10, the volume brings together what is known about the effects of sound on diverse vertebrate taxa so that investigators with interests in specific groups can learn from the data and experimental approaches from other species. Put another way, having an overview of the similarities and discrepancies among various animal groups and insight into the “how and why” will benefit the overall conceptual understanding, applications in society, and all future research.
- About the authors
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Hans Slabbekoorn is an Associate Professor at Leiden University
Robert J. Dooling is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland
Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and research Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park
Richard R Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Man-Made Sounds and Animals
Pages 1-22
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Communication Masking by Man-Made Noise
Pages 23-46
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Principles of Auditory Object Formation by Nonhuman Animals
Pages 47-82
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Characteristics of Temporary and Permanent Threshold Shifts in Vertebrates
Pages 83-107
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Acoustic Conditions Affecting Sound Communication in Air and Underwater
Pages 109-144
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Animals
- Editors
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- Hans Slabbekoorn
- Robert Dooling
- Arthur N. Popper
- Richard R. Fay
- Series Title
- Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
- Series Volume
- 66
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-8574-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-8574-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-8572-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-9330-7
- Series ISSN
- 0947-2657
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 309
- Number of Illustrations
- 39 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
- Topics