Nature's chorus: Invasive plants change the soundscape earth.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from earth.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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<p>Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better tune into possible changes occurring?</p>
<p>A team of researchers led by Grace O’Malley, a Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, and Gabrielle Ripa, a Ph.D. student in plant and environmental sciences, have discovered that the silent growth of non-native invasive plants can affect the soundscape of an ecosystem. These altered soundscapes, the acoustic patterns of a landscape through space and time, may provide a key to better observing the hard-to-see physical and biological changes occurring in an ecosystem as they are beginning.</p>
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Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better tune into possible changes occurring? A team of res