Information use and disturbance across sound, light, and smell in animals
Kok, A.C.M. (2024). Information use and disturbance across sound, light, and smell in animals, in: Popper, A.N. et al. The effects of noise on aquatic life: Principles and practical considerations. pp. 589-597. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50256-9_80 |
| Keywords | | | Author keywords | Disturbance ·Sensory modality · Chemosensory |
| Abstract | Anthropogenic disturbance is affecting the sensory environment. Acoustic, visual, and chemosensory modalities are changing, impacting information use of animals across taxa. In order to effectively mitigate these impacts, we need to understand how disturbance in those sensory modalities are similar, and where they diverge. Animal information use follows the general principle of a cue that is produced by a sender and perceived by a receiver, which may alter its behavior in response to that cue. At the same time, acoustic, visual, and chemosensory modalities diverge in whether parts of this process involve active production and in whether the receiver is actively creating cues that it can perceive. Sensory pollution can take place through masking and changes in signal processing speed, which overarches sensory modalities. Getting better understanding of how acoustic, visual, and chemosensory pollution affect animal information use will help unravel the general mechanisms underlying the effects of sensory disturbance on information use in animals. |
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