A Suburban Soundscape Reveals Altered Acoustic Dynamics during the COVID-19 Lockdown

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The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting national international movement restrictions provide a unique opportunity to investigate consequences of changing anthropogenic noise regimes on animal communities soundscapes. Here, I used this lockdown period as natural experiment changes soundscape intensity, structure, dynamics during restricted human activity (lockdown) in suburban Nottingham, UK. Using 11 common acoustic indices, tested for differences richness evenness lockdown, measured by comparing temporal variability indices versus after lockdown. Regardless how was summarised, there were significant evenness, principally driven noise. recorded shift away from dominance anthropophony towards more intense biological sounds generally even, particularly because magnitude diurnal cycle. These preliminary results mass confinement an early glimpse into soundscapes are impacted pollution. In time, globally distributed longer-term monitoring efforts will reveal generality these findings, facilitating mechanistic understanding impacts world’s human-dominated

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Journal of ecoacoustics

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2516-1466']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35995/jea6010001