Noise nixes seed spread

摘要

Noise pollution not only alters the behaviour of individual animals, it can also have a wider impact on ecosystems. Clinton Francis at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina, and his colleagues studied how noise levels affect the hummingbird Archilochus alexandri and the jay Aphelocoma californica (pictured) in an area of New Mexico that has a large number of gas wells.