Bioacoustics & Ecoacoustics Glossary

Chain of information transmission

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The sender-signal-receiver unit, as well as the processes of encoding information (by the sender), transmitting information (propagation of the signal in the environment), and decoding information (by the receiver). All elements of the information transmission chain can be affected by noise.

Reference: [1] Mathevon (2023), The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate, pp. 305–308.