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title: Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology
- author Davide M. Dominoni et al.
- date: Mar. 2020
- abstract
- Global expansion of human activities is associated with the introduction of novel stimuli, such as
- anthropogenic noise,
- artificial lights and
- chemical agents.
- Progress in documenting the ecological effects of sensory pollutants is weakened by sparse knowledge of the mechanisms underlying these effects.
- This severely limits our capacity to devise mitigation measures.
- Here,we integrate knowledge of animal
- sensory ecology,
- physiology and
- life history
- to articulate three perceptual mechanisms—
- masking,
- distracting and
- misleading
- that clearly explain how and why anthropogenic sensory pollutants impact organisms.
- We then
- link these three mechanisms to ecological consequences and
- discuss their implications for conservation.
- We argue that this framework can reveal the presence of ‘sensory danger zones’, hotspots of conservation concern
- where sensory pollutants overlap in space and time with an organism’s activity, and
- foster development of strategic interventions to mitigate the impact of sensory pollutants.
- Future research that applies this framework will provide critical insight to preserve the natural sensory world.
- Global expansion of human activities is associated with the introduction of novel stimuli, such as
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