Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade.

ABSTRACT: Anthropogenic sound is increasingly considered a major environmental issue, but its effects are relatively unstudied. Organisms may be directly affected by anthropogenic sound in many ways, including interference with their ability to detect mates, predators, or food, and disturbances that directly affect one organism may in turn have indirect effects on others. Thus, to fully appreciate the net effect of anthropogenic sound, it may be important to consider both direct and indirect effects. We report here on a series of experiments to test the hypothesis that anthropogenic sound can generate cascading indirect effects within a community. We used a study system of lady beetles, soybean aphids, and soybean plants, which are a useful model for studying the direct and indirect effects of globa

SUBMITTER: Barton BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6106185 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature