soundscape

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"The acoustic environment in a landscape, with biophony, geophony and anthropophony creating patterns of sound that vary over spatial and temporal scales [1,2,3]." (from the Acoustic Index User's Guide)

References:
  1. Schafer RM. The Tuning of the World. New York: Knopf; 1977.
  2. Pijanowski BC, Villanueva-Rivera LJ, Dumyahn SL, et al. Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape. BioScience. 2011;61(3):203-216. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.3.6.
  3. Grinfeder E, Lorenzi C, Haupert S, Sueur J. What Do We Mean by “Soundscape”? A Functional Description. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2022;10:894232. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.894232.; Ross et al. (2023), Functional Ecology, glossary of key terms. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14275; Bradfer-Lawrence et al. (2023), Methods in Ecology and Evolution, glossary of key ecoacoustic terms. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14194

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To cite this website:

Ed Baker (2026) Bioacoustics & Ecoacoustics Glossary (https://glossary.acousti.cloud/). Accessed on October 6, 2026, 11:16 pm.