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Bioacoustics

Index Bioacoustics

Bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. [1]

89 relations: Abundance (ecology), Academic Press, Acoustic ecology, Acoustical oceanography, Acoustics, Action potential, Amplitude, Anatomy, Animal, Animal communication, Animal language, Anthropophony, Atmosphere of Earth, Bat, Biodiversity, Biology, Biomass, Biomusic, Biophony, Biotremology, Branches of science, Calibration, Computer, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cricket (insect), Current Biology, Diffusion (acoustics), Ear, Echo sounding, Elephant, Ethology, Evolution, Field recording, Fish, Fisheries acoustics, Frequency, Frog hearing and communication, Ground vibrations, Hearing, Hertz, Human, Humpback whale, Hydrophone, Infrasound, Insect, Ivan Regen, Laser Doppler vibrometer, List of animal sounds, List of Bioacoustics Software, Ljubljana, ..., Longitudinal wave, Microphone, Muscle, Music therapy, Natural history museum, Natural sounds, Neural circuit, Neurophysiology, Noise, Noise pollution, Order (biology), Organ (anatomy), Oscilloscope, Phonograph, Plant, PLOS One, Science, Scientist, Signal, Signal-to-noise ratio, Slovenes, Software, Sonar, Sound, Species, Springer Science+Business Media, Stimulus (physiology), Stridulation, Taxis, Tettigoniidae, Transmission medium, Tympanal organ, Ultrasound, Underwater acoustics, University of Western Australia, Vocal learning, Whale vocalization, Wiley-Blackwell, Zoomusicology. Expand index (39 more) »

Abundance (ecology)

In ecology, abundance is the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem.

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Academic Press

Academic Press is an academic book publisher.

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Acoustic ecology

Acoustic ecology, sometimes called ecoacoustics or soundscape studies, is a discipline studying the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment.

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Acoustical oceanography

Acoustical oceanography is the use of underwater sound to study the sea, its boundaries and its contents.

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Acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

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Action potential

In physiology, an action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific axon location rapidly rises and falls: this depolarisation then causes adjacent locations to similarly depolarise.

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Amplitude

The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change over a single period (such as time or spatial period).

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Anatomy

Anatomy (Greek anatomē, “dissection”) is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Animal communication

Animal communication is the transfer of information from one or a group of animals (sender or senders) to one or more other animals (receiver or receivers) that affects the current or future behavior of the receivers.

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Animal language

Animal languages are forms of non-human animal communication that show similarities to human language.

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Anthropophony

The term, anthropophony, consists of the Greek prefix, anthropo, meaning human, and the suffix, phon, meaning sound.

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Atmosphere of Earth

The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, commonly known as air, that surrounds the planet Earth and is retained by Earth's gravity.

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Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

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Biomass

Biomass is an industry term for getting energy by burning wood, and other organic matter.

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Biomusic

Biomusic is a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by non-humans.

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Biophony

Biophony (also known as the niche hypothesis) consists of the Greek prefix, bio, meaning life, and the suffix, phon, meaning sound.

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Biotremology

Biotremology is the study of production, dispersion and reception of mechanical vibrations by animals, and their effect on behaviour.

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Branches of science

The branches of science, also referred to as sciences, "scientific fields", or "scientific disciplines" are commonly divided into three major groups.

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Calibration

Calibration in measurement technology and metrology is the comparison of measurement values delivered by a device under test with those of a calibration standard of known accuracy.

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Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a member-supported unit of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York which studies birds and other wildlife.

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Cricket (insect)

Crickets (also known as "true crickets"), of the family Gryllidae, are insects related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers.

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Current Biology

Current Biology is a scientific journal that covers all areas of biology, especially molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Diffusion (acoustics)

Diffusion, in acoustics and architectural engineering, is the efficacy by which sound energy is spread evenly in a given environment.

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Ear

The ear is the organ of hearing and, in mammals, balance.

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Echo sounding

Echo sounding is a type of sonar used to determine the depth of water by transmitting sound pulses into water.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Field recording

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Fisheries acoustics

Fisheries acoustics includes a range of research and practical application topics using acoustical devices as sensors in aquatic environments.

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Frequency

Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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Frog hearing and communication

Frogs and toads produce a rich variety of sounds, calls, and songs during their courtship and mating rituals.

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Ground vibrations

Ground vibrations is a technical term that is being used to describe mostly man-made vibrations of the ground, in contrast to natural vibrations of the Earth studied by seismology.

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Hearing

Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations, changes in the pressure of the surrounding medium through time, through an organ such as the ear.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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Hydrophone

A hydrophone (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ.

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Infrasound

Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low-frequency sound, is sound that is lower in frequency than 20 Hz or cycles per second, the "normal" limit of human hearing.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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Ivan Regen

Ivan (Janez) Regen (known also as Johann Regen) (December 9, 1868 – July 27, 1947) was a Slovenian biologist, best known for his studies in the field of bioacoustics.

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Laser Doppler vibrometer

A laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) is a scientific instrument that is used to make non-contact vibration measurements of a surface.

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List of animal sounds

This is a list of words used in the English language to represent the noises of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication.

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List of Bioacoustics Software

Here is a listing of the most referenced bioacoustics software.

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Ljubljana

Ljubljana (locally also; also known by other, historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia.

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Longitudinal wave

Longitudinal waves are waves in which the displacement of the medium is in the same direction as, or the opposite direction to, the direction of propagation of the wave.

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Microphone

A microphone, colloquially nicknamed mic or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.

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Muscle

Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals.

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Music therapy

Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.

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Natural history museum

A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more.

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Natural sounds

Natural sounds are sounds produced by natural sources in their normal soundscape.

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Neural circuit

A neural circuit, is a population of neurons interconnected by synapses to carry out a specific function when activated.

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Neurophysiology

Neurophysiology (from Greek νεῦρον, neuron, "nerve"; φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia, "knowledge") is a branch of physiology and neuroscience that is concerned with the study of the functioning of the nervous system.

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Noise

Noise is unwanted sound judged to be unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing.

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Noise pollution

Sound pollution, also known as environmental noise or noise pollution, is the propagation of noise with harmful impact on the activity of human or animal life.

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Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

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Organ (anatomy)

Organs are collections of tissues with similar functions.

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Oscilloscope

An oscilloscope, previously called an oscillograph, and informally known as a scope or o-scope, CRO (for cathode-ray oscilloscope), or DSO (for the more modern digital storage oscilloscope), is a type of electronic test instrument that allows observation of varying signal voltages, usually as a two-dimensional plot of one or more signals as a function of time.

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Phonograph

The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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PLOS One

PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.

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Science

R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.

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Scientist

A scientist is a person engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge that describes and predicts the natural world.

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Signal

A signal as referred to in communication systems, signal processing, and electrical engineering is a function that "conveys information about the behavior or attributes of some phenomenon".

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Signal-to-noise ratio

Signal-to-noise ratio (abbreviated SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.

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Slovenes

The Slovenes, also called as Slovenians (Slovenci), are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Slovenia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak Slovenian as their first language.

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Software

Computer software, or simply software, is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built, that actually performs the work.

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Sonar

Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Stimulus (physiology)

In physiology, a stimulus (plural stimuli) is a detectable change in the internal or external environment.

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Stridulation

Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts.

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Taxis

A taxis (plural taxes) is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food.

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Tettigoniidae

Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called bush crickets (in the UK), katydids (in the USA), or long-horned grasshoppers (mostly obsolete).

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Transmission medium

A transmission medium is a material substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) that can propagate energy waves.

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Tympanal organ

A tympanal organ is a hearing organ in insects, consisting of a membrane (tympanum) stretched across a frame backed by an air sac and associated sensory neurons.

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Ultrasound

Ultrasound is sound waves with frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing.

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Underwater acoustics

Underwater acoustics is the study of the propagation of sound in water and the interaction of the mechanical waves that constitute sound with the water and its boundaries.

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University of Western Australia

The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Vocal learning

Vocal learning is the ability to modify acoustic and syntactic sounds, acquire new sounds via imitation, and produce vocalizations.

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Whale vocalization

Whale sounds are used by whales for different kinds of communication.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Zoomusicology

Zoomusicology is a field of musicology and zoology or more specifically, zoosemiotics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioacoustics

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