A phantom road experiment reveals traffic noise is an invisible source of habitat degradation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Heidi E WareJesse R Barber

Abstract

Decades of research demonstrate that roads impact wildlife and suggest traffic noise as a primary cause of population declines near roads. We created a "phantom road" using an array of speakers to apply traffic noise to a roadless landscape, directly testing the effect of noise alone on an entire songbird community during autumn migration. Thirty-one percent of the bird community avoided the phantom road. For individuals that stayed despite the noise, overall body condition decreased by a full SD and some species showed a change in ability to gain body condition when exposed to traffic noise during migratory stopover. We conducted complementary laboratory experiments that implicate foraging-vigilance behavior as one mechanism driving this pattern. Our results suggest that noise degrades habitat that is otherwise suitable, and that the presence of a species does not indicate the absence of an impact.

References

Mar 1, 1990·Acta Biotheoretica·J M McNamara, A I Houston
Oct 1, 1989·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·C S RobbinsS Droege
Apr 29, 1993·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·M S Witter, I C Cuthill
Jul 1, 1997·Animal Behaviour·R Montgomerie, P J Weatherhead
Jun 10, 2006·Ecology·Bruce A Robertson, Richard L Hutto
Jul 20, 2007·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Anders Hedenström
Jul 12, 2008·Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology·Erin M BayneStan Boutin
Feb 11, 2009·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Matthew W ReudinkLaurene M Ratcliffe
Jun 6, 2009·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Emily J Mockford, Rupert C Marshall
Jul 28, 2009·Current Biology : CB·Clinton D FrancisAlexander Cruz
Sep 19, 2009·Trends in Ecology & Evolution·Jesse R BarberKurt M Fristrup
Apr 22, 2010·Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America·John FaaborgNils Warnock
Nov 19, 2010·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Björn M Siemers, Andrea Schaub
Aug 3, 2011·Ecology Letters·Caitlin R Kight, John P Swaddle
May 9, 2012·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Marcel KlaassenWilliam A Buttemer
Nov 8, 2013·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Christopher J W McClureJesse R Barber

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Citations

Sep 24, 2015·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·William F Laurance
Apr 21, 2016·Biology Letters·Aaron M Grade, Kathryn E Sieving
May 8, 2016·Animal Cognition·D S ProppeC B Sturdy
May 25, 2016·Animal Cognition·Dominique A Potvin
Sep 21, 2016·Ecology and Evolution·Davide M DominoniHenrik Brumm
Oct 6, 2016·PeerJ·Jessica L Yorzinski, Fredrick S Hermann
Aug 19, 2016·Scientific Reports·Masayuki SenzakiFutoshi Nakamura
Jan 10, 2018·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Nathan J KleistClinton D Francis
Jan 5, 2017·Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America·Nathan J KleistClinton D Francis
Jun 27, 2018·Integrative and Comparative Biology·Tracy I MulhollandClinton D Francis
Jan 1, 2019·PloS One·Julian C EvansCaitlin R Kight
Nov 23, 2018·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Jennifer B TennessenTracy Langkilde
Oct 11, 2019·Royal Society Open Science·Jennifer N PhillipsClinton D Francis
Apr 8, 2020·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Wouter Halfwerk, Kees van Oers
Mar 24, 2020·Nature Ecology & Evolution·Davide M DominoniJesse R Barber
Jan 11, 2017·Ecology and Evolution·Danielle V NelsonTiffany S Garcia
Jul 28, 2019·Ecology and Evolution·Gleidson Ramos da SilvaCharles Duca
Nov 7, 2019·Ecology and Evolution·Geoffrey M GouldJacqueline K Augustine
Mar 19, 2020·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Masayuki SenzakiClinton D Francis
Jul 9, 2020·Nature Communications·Sophia C CookeAlison Johnston
Jan 15, 2021·Environmental Science and Pollution Research International·Shahla Tashakor, Atefeh Chamani
Dec 29, 2020·The Journal of Animal Ecology·Nathan J KleistGeorge Wittemyer
Jan 15, 2021·Scientific Reports·Allison S InjaianHolger Klinck
Nov 13, 2020·Nature·Masayuki SenzakiClinton D Francis
Aug 8, 2017·Journal of Environmental Management·Clinton D FrancisJesse R Barber
Jul 29, 2017·Marine Pollution Bulletin·Heather L HeenehanDavid W Johnston
Apr 6, 2021·Conservation Physiology·Laura K ElmerSteven J Cooke
Sep 6, 2020·The Science of the Total Environment·Zhiqiang ZhaoJianguo Liu
May 18, 2021·Trends in Ecology & Evolution·Megan C SabalEric P Palkovacs
Sep 23, 2021·Science Advances·Michael B SchrimpfNicola Koper
Nov 17, 2021·Microbial Ecology·Mae BerlowElizabeth P Derryberry

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Cell Migration

Cell migration is involved in a variety of physiological and pathological processes such as embryonic development, cancer metastasis, blood vessel formation and remoulding, tissue regeneration, immune surveillance and inflammation. Here is the latest research.

Related Papers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Gösta Leon BluhmMats Rosenlund
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
P Knipschild, H Sallé
Zeitschrift für die gesamte Hygiene und ihre Grenzgebiete
E Wetzstein, G Lange
© 2021 Meta ULC. All rights reserved