@booklet {Trash,
	title = {Trash vortex in the Pacific video},
	year = {Submitted},
	keywords = {environment, migration, pacific, pollution, trash},
	url = {http://planetgreen.discovery.com/videos/g-word-pacific-ocean-trash-vortex.html}
}
@article {Szeremeta2009Analysis,
	title = {Analysis and evaluation of soundscapes in public parks through interviews and measurement of noise},
	journal = {Science of The Total Environment},
	volume = {407},
	number = {24},
	year = {2009},
	month = {December},
	pages = {6143{\textendash}6149},
	abstract = {The purpose of this work was to investigate the sound environment of public parks using a soundscape study model that analyzes not only noise but also all the types of sound of a given area, as well as other environmental factors. To this end, acoustic measurements were made in the parks under study and interviews were held with their frequent visitors. Noise measurements were conducted in 55 points, and a total of 335 people were interviewed in the 4 parks studied. The parks selected for this study are located in areas very close to streets with intense vehicle flow, raising the hypothesis that this proximity impairs the acoustic comfort of their visitors. The findings confirm the strong influence of traffic noise on the soundscapes of the parks. Noise measurements showed that in all parks, between 50 and 100\% of the points evaluated displayed sound levels above 55~dB(A), the level established by Curitiba{\textquoteright}s Municipal Law 10625 as the limit permitted for green areas during daytime. Other conditions in the parks{\textquoteright} environments were also identified, which interfere jointly in the soundscape and in its perception, such as spatial factors of each park, the urban setting of its surroundings, and the sounds originating inside the parks.},
	keywords = {acoustics, bioaocustics, environment, noise, pollution},
	issn = {00489697},
	doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.039},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.08.039},
	author = {Szeremeta, Bani and Zannin, Paulo H.}
}
@article {Cowling2003Comparison,
	title = {Comparison of techniques for environmental sound recognition},
	journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters},
	volume = {24},
	number = {15},
	year = {2003},
	month = {November},
	pages = {2895{\textendash}2907},
	abstract = {This paper presents a comprehensive comparative study of artificial neural networks, learning vector quantization and dynamic time warping classification techniques combined with stationary/non-stationary feature extraction for environmental sound recognition. Results show 70\% recognition using mel frequency cepstral coefficients or continuous wavelet transform with dynamic time warping.},
	keywords = {asr, environment, it, recognition, soundscapes},
	issn = {01678655},
	doi = {10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00147-8},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00147-8},
	author = {Cowling, M.}
}
@article {Laiolo2010Emerging,
	title = {The emerging significance of bioacoustics in animal species conservation},
	journal = {Biological Conservation},
	year = {2010},
	month = {April},
	abstract = {This review reports on the effects of human activities on animal acoustic signals published in the literature from 1970 to 2009. Almost 5\% of the studies on variation in animal communication tested or hypothesised on human impacts, and showed that habitat fragmentation, direct human disturbance, introduced diseases, urbanization, hunting, chemical and noise pollution may challenge animal acoustic behaviour. Although acoustic adaptations to anthropogenic habitats have been documented, human impacts have most often generated neutral variation or potential maladaptive responses. Negative impacts have been postulated in the sexual signals of fishes, amphibians, birds, and mammals; these are concerning as any maladaptive alteration of sexual behaviour may have direct bearings on breeding success and ultimately population growth rate. Acoustic communication also facilitates other vital behaviours influenced by human-driven perturbations. Bat and cetacean echolocation, for instance, is disrupted by noise pollution, whereas bird and mammal alarming is also affected by introduced diseases and hunting. Mammal social signals are sensitive to noise pollution and hunting, and birds selecting habitats by means of acoustic cues are especially vulnerable to habitat loss. Anthropogenic intervention in these cases may have a negative impact on individual survival, recruitment and group cohesion, limiting rescue-effects and triggering Allee effects. Published evidence shows that acoustic variation may be used as an early-warning indicator of perturbations even when not directly affecting individual fitness. Acoustic signalling can be studied in a broad range of ecosystems, can be recorded, analyzed, synthesised and played back with relative ease and limited economic budget, and is sensitive to many types of impacts, thus can have great conservation significance.},
	keywords = {amibio, bioacoustics, biodiversity, conservation, environment},
	issn = {00063207},
	doi = {10.1016/j.biocon.2010.03.025},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.03.025},
	author = {Laiolo, Paola}
}
