Bird+Biodiversity+and+Bioacoustics

Earth's biological diversity is immense, with an estimated 10 million to 100 million species alive today. Clearly, any study of biodiversity has to be limited depending on the question being addressed. How do scientists measure biodiversity? This is a very important question, because the results of any study are only as good as the methods used to obtain them. Our bird biodiversity study is designed to answer this question: How many populations make up the bird community in a particular patch of urban habitat?

Our bird bioacoustics study examines how urban noise affects bird song. We use recording equipment and analytical software to quantitavely study how birds are changing their songs in the urban ecosystem.

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