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English
Etymology
From bio- + -phony.
Noun
biophony (plural biophonies)
- (ecology) The cumulative nonhuman sounds produced by living organisms in a given biome.
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References
- Krause, B. Into a Wild Sanctuary, Heyday Books, Berkeley, California, 1998
- Krause, B. Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Wilderness Press, Berkeley, California, 2002
- Krause, B. Loss of Natural Soundscape: Global Implications of Its Effect on Humans and Other Creatures, Speech given to World Affairs Council, San Francisco, California, 31 January 2001.
- Gage, S., Krause, B. Measuring and Interpreting Acoustics In Four Landscapes In Sequoia National Park, (in press).
- Krause, B. Anatomy of the Soundscape: Evolving Perspectives, Jour. of the Audio Eng. Soc., Vol. 56, No. 1/2 2008, January/February
- Bryan C. Pijanowski, Luis J. Villanueva-Rivera, Sarah L. Dumyahn, Almo Farina, Bernie L. Krause, Brian M. Napoletano, Stuart H. Gage, and Nadia Pieretti, Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape, March 2011 / Vol. 61 No. 3 • BioScience
- Krause, B. The Voice of the Natural World, TED Global talk, 15 June 2013, https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-infospace-074&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-074&hspart=infospace¶m1=5v5rqkpky7848dsdbcr58gny&p=TED+talk+Bernie+Krause&type=ud-c-us--s-p-tym2nnc7--exp-none--subid-none#id=1&vid=5d2bb471bd82ea51fe92057dca7484d8&action=click