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Grasshoppers change their tune to stay tuned over traffic noise
Published on 14. November 2012
Grasshoppers are having to change their song – one of the iconic
sounds of summer – to make themselves heard above the din of road
traffic, ecologists have discovered. The study, published in the British
Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, is the first to show
that man-made noise affects natural insect populations.[Weiterlesen]
Posted by MBorchert
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