Coping with a changing soundscape: avoidance, adjustments and adaptations
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- 作者：Dominique A. Potvin
- 关键词：Anthropogenic noise ; Communication ; Bioacoustics ; Urban ecology
- 刊名：Animal Cognition
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：20
- 期：1
- 页码：9-18
- 全文大小：527KB
- 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
- 刊物主题：Behavioral Sciences; Zoology; Psychology Research;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1435-9456
- 卷排序：20
文摘
Since the industrial age, background anthropogenic noise has become a pervasive feature of many habitable environments. This relatively recent environmental feature can be particularly challenging for organisms that use acoustic forms of communication due to its propensity for masking and decreasing the potential acoustic space of signals. Furthermore, anthropogenic noise may affect biological processes including animal interactions, physiological and behavioural responses to stimuli and cognitive development. However, animals’ cognitive abilities may enable them to cope with high levels of anthropogenic noise through learning, the employment of acoustic and behavioural flexibility as well as the use of multi-modal sensory systems. We are only just beginning to understand how neural structures, endocrine systems and behaviour are mechanistically linked in these scenarios, providing us with information we can use to mitigate deleterious effects of pervasive noise on wildlife, along with highlighting the remarkable adaptability of animals to an increasingly anthropogenic world. In this review, I will focus mainly on birds, due to the amount of literature on the topic, and survey recent advancements made in two main spheres: (1) how anthropogenic noise affects cognitive processes and (2) how cognition enables animals to cope with increasingly noisy environments. I will be highlighting current gaps in our knowledge, such as how noise might impact behavioural traits such as predation, as well as how noise causes physical damage to neurotransmitters and affects stress levels, in order to direct future studies on this topic.