Soundscape dynamics of a cold protected forest: dominance of aircraft noise.

ABSTRACT:

Context

One mainstay of soundscape ecology is to understand acoustic pattern changes, in particular the relative balance between biophony (biotic sounds), geophony (abiotic sounds), and anthropophony (human-related sounds). However, little research has been pursued to automatically track these three components.

Objectives

Here, we introduce a 15-year program that aims at estimating soundscape dynamics in relation to possible land use and climate change. We address the relative prevalence patterns of these components during the first year of recording.

Methods

Using four recorders, we monitored the soundscape of a large coniferous Alpine forest at the France-Switzerland border. We trained an artificial neural network (ANN) with mel frequency cepstral coefficients to sy

SUBMITTER: Grinfeder E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8741586 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature