Are communication activities shaped by environmental constraints in reverberating and absorbing forest habitats?
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Are communication activities shaped by environmental constraints in reverberating and absorbing forest habitats? / Mathevon, Nicolas; Aubin, Thierry; Dabelsteen, Torben; Vielliard, Jacques M. E.
In: Anais da Academia Brasileiras de Ciências, Vol. 76, No. 2, 2004, p. 259-263.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Are communication activities shaped by environmental constraints in reverberating and absorbing forest habitats?
AU - Mathevon, Nicolas
AU - Aubin, Thierry
AU - Dabelsteen, Torben
AU - Vielliard, Jacques M. E.
N1 - Key words: acoustic communication, propagation-induced modifications, environmental constraints, evolution of communication.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - In the dense vegetation of temperate or tropical forests, communication processes are constrained bypropagation-induced modifications of the transmitted sounds. The presence of leaves, trunks and branchesinduces important sound reverberation and absorption leading to diminution of the signal energy as well asqualitative modifications. The aim of this paper is to briefly review the different strategies used by birdsto manage with these constraints. At the emitter’s level, an adapted emission behavior which takes intoaccount both the physical heterogeneities of the forest environment and the temporal variations of the acousticconstraints, is especially useful to control the active space of signaling. The coding of information intoacoustic parameters that have different susceptibility to propagation constraints is also of great interest. Atthe receiver’s level, an adaptive reception behavior (listening post) and a great tolerance to sound degradationduring the decoding process are the keys to an optimal communication process.
AB - In the dense vegetation of temperate or tropical forests, communication processes are constrained bypropagation-induced modifications of the transmitted sounds. The presence of leaves, trunks and branchesinduces important sound reverberation and absorption leading to diminution of the signal energy as well asqualitative modifications. The aim of this paper is to briefly review the different strategies used by birdsto manage with these constraints. At the emitter’s level, an adapted emission behavior which takes intoaccount both the physical heterogeneities of the forest environment and the temporal variations of the acousticconstraints, is especially useful to control the active space of signaling. The coding of information intoacoustic parameters that have different susceptibility to propagation constraints is also of great interest. Atthe receiver’s level, an adaptive reception behavior (listening post) and a great tolerance to sound degradationduring the decoding process are the keys to an optimal communication process.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 76
SP - 259
EP - 263
JO - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias.
JF - Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias.
SN - 0001-3765
IS - 2
ER -
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