This is a podcast extra from nature. A story of sound, science, technology and the natural world. All our senses allow us to engage with but sound is a particularly important component of that. As we spend time outside, it's often bird song, insect calls that ar a sound tract to that experience. And so my work focuses on trying to record, document and even recreate natural sound scapes as a way of better understanding our changing world.
As our environments change, so too do the sounds they make — and this change in soundscape can effect us in a whole host of ways, from our wellbeing to the way we think about conservation. In this Podcast Extra we hear from one researcher, Simon Butler, who is combining citizen science data with technology to recreate soundscapes lost to the past. Butler hopes to better understand how soundscapes change in response to changes in the environment, and use this to look forward to the soundscapes of the future.Nature Communications: Bird population declines and species turnover are changing the acoustic properties of spring soundscapesSubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.
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