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The forest sound detectives

People Fixing the World

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Using Soundscapes to Detect Changes in Forests

In a healthy forest, what we're looking for is that o the frequency is a fool. You know, the band wits are taken up srome, sort of lodahi. You've got animals a making noise. And were working then on the belief that as as gaps appear in the sandscape, that means there's species that should be there that are no longer there. But they're easy to see when you plot the sound out, look at it on a screen. And that's been a real revelation for me and my work, is seeing just how powerfully you can use sound scapes to detect changes in forest.

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