Spatio-temporal variability in human and natural sounds in a rural landscape

Matsinos, Yiannis G.; Mazaris, Antonios D.; Papadimitriou, Kimon; Mniestris, Andreas; Hatzigiannidis, George; Maioglou, Dimitris; Pantis, John D.

doi:10.1007/s10980-008-9250-7

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“…Results of this pilot study showed that the average inter-rater reliability of perceived loudness of birdsong and other major sounds was 0.91 (Cronbach's Alpha, sample size 70). The observers were then divided into 6 groups of 2 to conduct the evaluation respectively, each responsible for 3 or 4 sampled sites (cf., [30]). The investigation was carried out on the 3rd and 4th of August 2011.…”

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Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Liu¹,

Kang²,

Behm³

2014

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

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SummaryBirds are common species in urban ecosystems and birdsong is an important element of many urban sound environments. Perceptions of birdsong loudness, based on a case study in Warnemünde, a coastal area in Germany, were analysed in terms of its role in urban sound environment, the relationships with other sounds, spatiotemporal characteristics, as well as the relationships with underlying landscape characteristics. An important and positive role of birdsong in urban soundscape perception in the study area was recognised. The analysis of the relationships between birdsong perception and other sounds suggested that, although birds could adjust their songs with continual urban traffic sounds, they are still sensitive to excessive sounds related to human appearance (adult voice, child voice and footstep) or human activities (construction sounds, music). The spatiotemporal patterns of perceived loudness of birdsong suggested the adapted patterns of bird species in urban areas. Perceived loudness of birdsong showed close relationships with the underlying landscape characteristics indicated by a series of landscape spatial pattern indices. Positive relationships were found with construction density, road density, vegetation density, as well as fragmentation status indicated by patch density, largest patch index, landscape shape index, fractal dimension and contagion.

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Section: Field Soundscape Investigationmentioning

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Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Liu¹,

Kang²,

Behm³

2014

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

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“…Numerosas aves canoras, entre las que destaca el mirlo común (Turdus merula), y ciertas columbiformes, como la tórtola turca (Streptopelia decaocto) y la paloma torcaz (Columba palumbus), intensifican considerablemente su manifestación acústica durante los meses de primavera. Se puede hablar por tanto, de patrones temporales específicos en relación con la manifestación sonora de la fauna en el paisaje, reflejo de ciclos de actividad anuales o diarios (Matsinos et al, 2008;Pijanowski et al, 2011b).…”

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Propuesta metodológica para la inclusión de la fauna en los estudios de paisaje. El ejemplo de la playa de Casasola, Málaga (España)

Serrano-Montes¹,

Zotano²

2017

BAGE

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RESUMENSe propone un procedimiento metodológico para evaluar la manifestación directa de la componente animal (tanto salvaje como doméstica) del paisaje de acuerdo con las Orientaciones para la aplicación del Convenio Europeo del Paisaje. Para testar la validez del método, la propuesta se aplica a un territorio complejo como el litoral mediterráneo de la provincia de Málaga, Andalucía. El estudio corrobora que la fauna puede constituir un elemento característico del paisaje, especialmente en su dimensión sonora, con independencia de su grado de naturalidad. Se concluye que la fauna puede y debe incluirse en los estudios de paisaje.Palabras clave: Fauna, estudios de paisaje, geografía, zoogeografía, Andalucía. ABSTRACTA methodological approach is proposed to assess the direct expression of the animal component (both wild and domestic) of the landscape according to the Guidelines for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. In order to test the validity of the method, the proposal is applied to a complex territory like the Mediterranean coastal area José Luis Serrano-Montes y José Gómez-Zotano in the province of Malaga, Andalusia. The study confirms that fauna can be a characteristic element of landscape, especially in its sonic dimension and regardless of the degree of naturalness. We conclude that fauna can and must be included in studies of landscape.

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“…research on soundscape composition characteristics have been conducted in both rural and urban areas, where soundscapes were treated as a series of perceptible sounds recognised by a group of pre oral scales (Liu et al 2013b;Matsinos et al 2008). The approach could be categ is usually conducted by a group of people following a pre cific sites) and using a structured protocol with a high level of sonic awareness, during which soundscape quality Schafer 1969).…”

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“…These parameters provide a constant filter that is independent of sound source identification, therefore the information reflected by them could be misleading for planners (Raimbault, Dubois 2005). This is mainly because soundscapes are perceived by human and shaped by neural and psychological attributes rather than by physical parameters (Matsinos et al 2008). Although it was suggested, for example, that a metric should take into account the variations in low-frequency sound energies since A-weighted sound pressure level measurements cannot properly assess soundscapes across different sound sources (Leventhall 2004), loudness-based parameters neither directly reflect annoyance, nor sufficiently describe soundscapes that human really perceive (Genuit, Fiebig 2006).…”

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Soundscape Design in City Parks: Exploring the Relationships Between Soundscape Composition Parameters and Physical and Psychoacoustic Parameters

Liu

Kang²

2015

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management

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ReuseUnless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. J. Liu, J. Kang / Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management 23: (2) 2015 102-112 1 * ABSTRACTSoundscape design in city parks is important for a better visiting experience. The aim of this research is to find a more effective way to design soundscapes in city parks, by exploring the relationships between certain physical and psychoacoustic parameters and soundscape composition parametersas proposed in this study, including perceived loudness of individual sound (PLS), perceived occurrences of individual sound (POS), and soundscape diversity index (SDI). The parameters were based on soundscape information gathered with a specifically designed soundwalk method in five city parks in Xiamen, China. The results showed that the soundscape composition parameters play important roles as soundscape parameters. L Ceq -L Aeq , L A10 -L A90 and sharpness showed more explanatory power to the soundscape composition parameters of individual sound categories than other physical and psychoacoustic parameters. PLS of human sounds was the most frequently introduced variable for nearly all the other objective parameters, followed by SDI. Some of the soundscape composition parameters were found to be mutually explainable, including PLS of human sounds with L A10 , L Ceq -L Aeq and sharpness, respectively, POS of traffic sounds with L A10 , and PLS of both mechanical and geophysical sounds with sharpness, which supply important information for soundscape design in city parks.

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Spatio-temporal variability in human and natural sounds in a rural landscape

Cited by 37 publications

References 20 publications

Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Propuesta metodológica para la inclusión de la fauna en los estudios de paisaje. El ejemplo de la playa de Casasola, Málaga (España)

Soundscape Design in City Parks: Exploring the Relationships Between Soundscape Composition Parameters and Physical and Psychoacoustic Parameters

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