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Composition and Dynamics of the Sonosphere Along a Soil-Surface Ecotone at an Agricultural Site in Northern Italy: A Preliminary Approach
by Almo Farina and Timothy C. Mullet
Geosciences 2025, 15(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15020034 - 21 Jan 2025
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Investigating the sonosphere can serve as a valuable proxy for understanding various ecosystem processes. Consequently, an ecoacoustic perspective broadens our capacity to understand how airborne sounds interact along an ecotone at the soil surface with the subterranean sounds generated within a pedon. We [...] Read more.
Investigating the sonosphere can serve as a valuable proxy for understanding various ecosystem processes. Consequently, an ecoacoustic perspective broadens our capacity to understand how airborne sounds interact along an ecotone at the soil surface with the subterranean sounds generated within a pedon. We explored techniques that could detect, quantify, and analyze the sonic dimensions of a sonosphere in the form of sounds within a unit of soil (sonopedon), sounds from a landscape unit (sonotope), and the sonic ecotone (sonotone) where these phenomena converge. We recorded sounds for 24 h over 20 days in September 2024 at 40 sites distributed evenly across a small rural parcel of agricultural land in Northern Italy. We utilized a sound recording device fabricated with a sonic probe that simultaneously operated inside the soil and the grounds’ surface, which successfully captured sounds attributable both to the soilscape and to the landscape. We calculated the Sonic Heterogeneity Indices, SHItf and SHIft, and analyzed the Spectral and Temporal Sonic Signatures along with Spectral Sonic Variability, Effective Number of Frequency Bins, and Sonic Dissimilarity. Each calculation contributed to a detailed description of how the sonosphere is characterized across the frequency spectrum, temporal dynamics, and sound sources. The sonosphere in our study area, primarily characterized by the low-frequency spectra, possessed a mix of biological, geophysical, and anthropogenic sounds displaying distinct temporal patterns (sonophases) that coincided with astronomic divisions of the day (daytime, twilights, and nighttime). Full article
(This article belongs to the Section Biogeosciences)
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