ecoacoustics research project
Publication Landscape Ecology of our first paper related to our long-term project dB@Risoux. We could track the main soundscape components in order to empirically estimate their relative prevalence across seasons. This analysis reveals that anthropogenic noise is a major component of the soundscape of protected habitats, which can dramatically impact local animal behavior and ecology. Congratulations to Elie Grinfeder for his first paper !
Our project dB@Risoux was featured in an ARTE TV documentary about the return of silence during the first COVID lockdown. Check it out at 29′.
Podcasts done by the Parc Naturel Régional du Haut-Jura and Biophonia about our project dB@Risoux.
A short note on acoustic biodiversity co-authored with Bernie Krause and Almo Farina published in a special issue dedicated to biodiversity in Current Biology.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01199-4
EAR participated to a full week of ecoacoustic teaching in the Jura mountains at the occasion of master module led by Frédéric Sèbe (Master of Bioacoustics International, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France): skilled and motivated students in rainy and cold but beautiful landscapes.
Find out more on the master here: https://www.masterofbioacoustics.com/
[choice by Elie] José Fornari is a music cognition researcher at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. In his 2008 paper « Soundscape Design Through Evolutionary Engines« , Fornari used a physical model of a bird vocal organ, the syrinx, and combined it with an evolutionary algorithm in order to produce a soundscape of artificial birds.
EAR participated to a major paper led by Rok Šturm from the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Rok did a wonderful work that highlights and deciphers the diversity of insect substrate-borne vibrations that occur in a hay meadow.
Published in iScience: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01038-5
A paper published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, led by Juan Ulloa and co-authored by Sylvain Haupert, Juan Felipe Latorre, Thierry Aubin and Jérôme Sueur.
Check the paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13711
Check the related github: https://scikit-maad.github.io/
EAR was interviewed for the radio show La Méthode Scientifique of France Culture radio channel.
[choice by Jérôme] This is a 15′ recording of forest soundscape made by Gordon Hempton at Olympic National Park, close to Seattle, USA. This recording is part of his project « One square inch of silence ». Gordon Hempton defined a small place where silence, that is the absence of human-based noise, should be absent. This is a wonderful recording. I particularly enjoy the woodpecker drumming which resonates returning some information about the size of the forest a bit like when we test the acoustics of a room by clapping hands and hearing the echoes of the walls.
