Soundscape ecology

thumb|Spectrograms of [[Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) and Common nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) singing help to reliably distinguish these two species by voice.]] Bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. Usually, it refers to the investigation of sound production, dispersion and reception in animals (including humans). This involves neurophysiological and anatomical basis of sound production and detection, and relation of acoustic signals to the medium they disperse through. The findings provide clues about the evolution of acoustic mechan

studies the relationship, mediated through sound, between human beings and their environment

American musician, author, soundscape recordist and bio-acoustician (*1938)