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Nelson-Olivieri JR, Layden TJ, Antunez E, Khalighifar A, Lasky M, Laverty TM, Sanchez KA, Shannon G, Starr S, Verahrami AK, Bombaci SP. Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife. Nat Ecol Evol 2024; 8:163-174. [PMID: 37985897 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02257-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
Abstract
Understanding how systemic biases influence local ecological communities is essential for developing just and equitable environmental practices that prioritize both human and wildlife well-being. With over 270 million residents inhabiting urban areas in the United States, the socioecological consequences of racially targeted zoning, such as redlining, need to be considered in urban planning. There is a growing body of literature documenting the relationships between redlining and the inequitable distribution of environmental harms and goods, green space cover and pollutant exposure. However, it remains unknown whether historical redlining affects the distribution of urban noise or whether inequitable noise drives an ecological change in urban environments. Here we conducted a spatial analysis of how urban noise corresponds to the distribution of redlining categories and a systematic literature review to summarize the effects of noise on wildlife in urban landscapes. We found strong evidence to indicate that noise is inequitably distributed in redlined urban communities across the United States, and that inequitable noise may drive complex biological responses across diverse urban wildlife, reinforcing the interrelatedness of socioecological outcomes. These findings lay a foundation for future research that advances relationships between acoustic and urban ecology through centring equity and challenging systems of oppression in wildlife studies.
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- Jasmine R Nelson-Olivieri
- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA
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- Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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Gilmour LRV, Holderied MW, Pickering SPC, Jones G. Acoustic deterrents influence foraging activity, flight and echolocation behaviour of free-flying bats. J Exp Biol 2021; 224:jeb242715. [PMID: 34605893 PMCID: PMC8601711 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.242715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Abstract
Acoustic deterrents have shown potential as a viable mitigation measure to reduce human impacts on bats; however, the mechanisms underpinning acoustic deterrence of bats have yet to be explored. Bats avoid ambient ultrasound in their environment and alter their echolocation calls in response to masking noise. Using stereo thermal videogrammetry and acoustic methods, we tested predictions that: (i) bats would avoid acoustic deterrents and forage and social call less in a 'treated airspace'; (ii) deterrents would cause bats to fly with more direct flight paths akin to commuting behaviour and in line with a reduction in foraging activity, resulting in increased flight speed and decreased flight tortuosity; and (iii) bats would alter their echolocation call structure in response to the masking deterrent sound. As predicted, overall bat activity was reduced by 30% and we recorded a significant reduction in counts of Pipistrellus pygmaeus (27%), Myotis spp. (probably M. daubentonii) (26%), and Nyctalus spp. and Eptesicus spp. (68%) passes. Pipistrellus pygmaeus feeding buzzes were also reduced by the deterrent in relation to general activity (by 38%); however, social calls were not (only 23% reduction). Bats also increased their flight speed and reduced the tortuosity of their flight paths, and P. pygmaeus reduced echolocation call bandwidth and start frequency of calls in response to deterrent playback, probably owing to the masking effect of the sound. Deterrence could therefore be used to remove bats from areas where they forage, for example wind turbines and roads, where they may be under threat from direct mortality.
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- Lia R. V. Gilmour
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
- Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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Bednarz PA. Do Decibels Matter? A Review of Effects of Traffic Noise on Terrestrial Small Mammals and Bats. POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.3161/15052249pje2020.68.4.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Paula Antonina Bednarz
- Department of Systematic Zoology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego str. 6, 61–614 Poznań, Poland, e-mail:
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Ramalho DF, Aguiar LMS. Bats on the Road — A Review of the Impacts of Roads and Highways on Bats. ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA 2020. [DOI: 10.3161/15081109acc2020.22.2.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Daniel F. Ramalho
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Darcy Ribeiro s/n, Asa Norte, 70910-900, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade de Brasília, Campus Darcy Ribeiro s/n, Asa Norte, 70910-900, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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Song S, Chang Y, Wang D, Jiang T, Feng J, Lin A. Chronic traffic noise increases food intake and alters gene expression associated with metabolism and disease in bats. J Appl Ecol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Shengjing Song
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization Northeast Normal University Changchun China
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology Ministry of Education Northeast Normal University Changchun China
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- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization Northeast Normal University Changchun China
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- Department of Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Seewiesen Germany
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- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization Northeast Normal University Changchun China
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- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization Northeast Normal University Changchun China
- Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology Ministry of Education Northeast Normal University Changchun China
- College of Life Science Jilin Agricultural University Changchun China
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- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization Northeast Normal University Changchun China
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