Thanks, Kevin. It has been great fun working with those folks at
Purdue. Took four years of really hard work to finally get this stuff
peer reviewed and published. The grad students there and at Michigan
State did some wonderful work. They deserve lots of credit for how
they've managed to frame it.
There's another paper coming out, and which we also wrote, on a
different aspect of the subject in "Landscape Ecology," momentarily.
It's really a hot topic in eco-circles these days because when
recorded with proper protocol in the field and then analyzed, the
natural soundscape sheds so much non-invasive light on the health of
habitats and how human intervention affects the proto-orchestration,
that it's becoming the new evaluation tool of choice. And you and
Martyn have played important roles in this, too. I'll never forget
some insightful fellow at a NPS meeting, soon after I introduced the
concept of biophony, opining to the group that I couldn't introduce a
new word to science. I won't repeat my response in this forum. It's no
accident that the perseverance paid off.
Anyway, the great universal chirp lives on and every living community
benefits. What better goal is that?
Bernie
On Apr 28, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Kevin Colver wrote:
> Great interview.
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> Soundscapes for Birders - a Podcast of Natural Sounds
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