Dear list,
Please find here the title and the abstract of a paper that we published
some weeks ago in /Biosemiotics/.
This essay draws the contour of ecoacoustics, a new discipline that
emerged from the Ecoacoustics Paris 2014 meeting.
/Ecoacoustics: the ecological investigation and interpretation of
environmental sound//
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The sounds produced by animals have been a topic of research into animal
behaviour for a very long time. If acoustic signals are undoubtedly a
vehicle for exchanging information between individuals, environmental
sounds embed as well a significant level of data related to the ecology
of populations, communities and landscapes. The consideration of
environmental sounds for ecological investigations opens up a field of
research that we define with the term ecoacoustics. In this paper, we
draw the contours of ecoacoustics by detailing: the main theories,
concepts and methods used in ecoacoustic research, and the numerous
outcomes that can be expected from the ecological approach to sound.
Ecoacoustics has several theoretical and practical challenges, but we
firmly believe that this new approach to investigating ecological
processes will generate abundant and exciting research programs.
Please do no hesitate to contact one of us to get the pdf if you have no
access to the journal.
Best regards,
Jerome Sueur (su...@mnhn.fr) and Almo Farina (almo.far...@uniurb.it)
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Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité
UMR 7205 CNRS-MNHN-UPMC-EPHE
45 rue Buffon
75005 Paris- France
http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/SUEUR-Jerome
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International Society of Ecoacoustics
https://sites.google.com/site/ecoacousticssociety/
