biophony
Definitions
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- noun the cumulative non-human sound produced by living organisms in a given biome.
Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Note
The word 'biophony' comes from bio- 'life' and -phon 'sound'.
