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- noun the cumulative non-human sound produced by living organisms in a given
biome .
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Examples
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The contamination of biophony may soon become a serious environmental issue — Krause says that man-made sounds are already wreaking havoc with animal communication.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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Krause has a word for the pristine acoustics of nature: biophony .
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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Krause has a word for the pristine acoustics of nature: biophony .
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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Last year, Krause brought biophony to the masses by creating an extraordinarily cool add-on for Google Earth.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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The contamination of biophony may soon become a serious environmental issue — Krause says that man-made sounds are already wreaking havoc with animal communication.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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In a biophony, animals divide up the acoustic spectrum so they don't interfere with one another's voices.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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Last year, Krause brought biophony to the masses by creating an extraordinarily cool add-on for Google Earth.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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In a biophony, animals divide up the acoustic spectrum so they don't interfere with one another's voices.
Clive Thompson on How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology 2008
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Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony (a/k/a The Niche Hypothesis) based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape within a given habitat.
WN.com - Articles related to Government Moves on Media Ethics in Sri Lanka 2010
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Rwanda), he identified the concept of biophony (a/k/a The Niche Hypothesis) based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape within a given habitat.
WN.com - Articles related to Government Moves on Media Ethics in Sri Lanka 2010
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Dr. Lin and his lab at Academia Sinica are developing a software algorithm to separate the elements of the soundscape into categories: biophony (creatures), geophony (weather, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions) and anthropophony (pesky or insidious human noises, like seismic tests, ships and mining).
bilby commented on the word biophony
"Krause has a word for the pristine acoustics of nature: biophony. It's what the world sounds like in the absence of humans. But in 40 percent of the locations where Krause has recorded over the past 40 years, human-generated noise has infiltrated the wilderness. 'It's getting harder and harder to find places that aren't contaminated,' he says."
- Clive Thompson, 'How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology', 19 May 2008.
May 30, 2008
whichbe commented on the word biophony
Referring to the biotic (group of animals living together) symphony in an ecosystem. (From Double-Tongued Dictionay)
June 9, 2008
qms commented on the word biophony
The hum that twice daily restarts
Is solved by acoustical arts:
The deep sea biophony
Is fragrant cacophony
For fish do their talking in farts.
"A Curious Sound Deep in the Ocean," Slate, 02/28/2016
March 7, 2016
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March 7, 2016