A synthesis of two decades of research documenting the effects of noise on wildlife

By Graeme Shannon, Megan F. McKenna, L. Angeloni, K. Crooks, Kurt Fristrup, Emma Brown, Katy A. Warner, Misty D. Nelson, Cecilia L. White, Jessica R. Briggs and 2 more. Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2016

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Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review (2021, background): “Apart from traffic noise, reflective structures, vegetation density, ambient temperature, and temporal changes in noise levels due to human activities also affect song communication in birds [132,133].”
Predicting the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on marine populations (2018, background): “Human impacts on marine ecosystems are increasing globally (Halpern et al., 2015), and fisheries bycatch and anthropogenic noise in particular pose a growing threat to many species (Lewison, Crowder, Read, & Freeman, 2004; Slabbekoorn et al., 2010; Shannon et al., 2016).”
A multivariate mixed hidden Markov model for blue whale behaviour and responses to sound exposure (2017, methodology): “Measuring and describing behaviour changes by marine mammals in response to underwater noise is a key step in understanding the potential harmful effects of this type of human disturbance on marine ecosystems [Ellison et al. (2012), Shannon et al. (2015)].”
Marine mammals and sonar: Dose‐response studies, the risk‐disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context (2018, background): “Stimulus–response studies have a long history in behaviour research (e.g. Hopp, Owren, & Evans, 1998; McGregor, 1992), but more recently have become an important approach in applied ecology for quantifying the behavioural response of animals to human- induced disturbance (Shannon et al., 2015).”