Frontiers in Ecoacoustics

Ecoacoustics is a recent ecological discipline that aims to investigate the role of sounds in the ecological processes from individual animal species, to populations and communities. Its competence is rapidly growing contributing to filling several gaps in the knowledge of natural phenomena. Today, ecoacoustics offers a set of robust theories to build efficient models to interpret complex ecological dynamics and explain the adaptations of species to a changing world. Contemporarily, the availability of well-tested metrics allows for mining and processing of a large amount of data collected by autonomous devices (digital recorders).

The Springer book series in ecoacoustics intends to publish theoretical, methodological and descriptive investigations, projects and solutions for sustainable land cover management thanks to the contribution offered by experts from all the fields of ecoacoustics. With the book series in ecoacoustics we intend to offer an agile editorial platform and permanent forum to scholars from all over the world to illustrate and discuss new ideas and ecoacoustics theories, summarize results on soundscapes from terrestrial, freshwater and marine biomes, and make extensive reports on the ecoacoustics methodologies applied to environmental assessment and resources monitoring.

The aim of this book series is to increase the popularity of ecoacoustics as a discipline that plays the role of a bridge between ecology, ecosemiosis, animal behaviour,  bioacoustics, psychoacoustics and traditional ecology. The series is conceived as a flexible tool with the strategy to offer the best news in the ecoacoustics field also discussed in workshops, symposia and congresses. The series will encourage interdisciplinary studies to better understand the relationship between other sensory-based environments,  like visual, thermal, olfactory, and tactile scapes. The series will devote particular attention to principles, theories and methods in ecoacoustics. Contemporarily the series intends to promote a comparative analysis of soundscapes from different biogeographic regions and land management regimes. The effect of noise on animal communities and people, land cover change and acoustic habits,  traditional versus industrial farming and their effect on acoustic communities, the cultural and recreational value of soundscapes, are some of the topics that could find space into the series.