World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. More recently, the International Society of Ecoacoustics, which convened for the first time in June 2014 in Paris, changed the focus of that inquiry to the narrower concept of soundscape ecology.

Roger and Katy Payne, were the first marine examples most people had ever heard.1 The

Then speak into it in a conversational voice with the microphone pointing at your mouth from arm’s length. Set the input level control so that the meter peaks at about –12dB on its scale.

Part of the discovery of wild soundscapes is discovering what specific types of habitats resonate with you.

Joachim-Ernst Berendt, in his book The Third Ear,

In a paper in 1977 on birdsong, Peter Marler and Kenneth Marten suggested the possibility that creatures vocalize in some (yet to be understood) relationship to one another.

In another publication, Jakob von Uexküll, a behavioral physiologist of the early twentieth century, referred to the notion of sensory niches in general.

I consider noise to be any sound that intrudes, covers, blocks, or distorts the articulation of sounds coming from the natural (as opposed to domestic) creature world.

Noise, in this instance, is defined as incoherent and chaotic acoustic signals that transmit no inherent information or intelligence.