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Is there a BMI soundscape?

This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 2022-02-02 at 12:54 PM by neilh20.

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- 2022-02-01 at 1:11 PM #16335
  neilh20
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  Just wondering if anybody has leads on what sounds Benthic macroinvertebrates might make – the sound scape in streams?
  
  I got a MachineLearning article this morning that referenced this story
  
  https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/researchers-develop-automated-method-identify-fish-calls-underwater
  
  I found this as well https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647551/
  
  perhaps how to have an audible monitoring system for streams?
- 2022-02-02 at 9:23 AM #16339
  Dave Bressler
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  From Dave Funk, entomologist at the Stroud Center (https://stroudcenter.org/people/funk/): “I’d be very surprised if there were any among the EPT’s–no structures I am aware of that might suggest either a source or sensor. It seems to me the most likely place to find sound communication in aquatic insects would be among (non-benthic) adult beetles or true bugs in still waters, e.g., dytiscids, hydrophilids, corixids, etc…”
- 2022-02-02 at 12:54 PM #16344
  neilh20
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  Thanks for checking with Dave on that. Good points about what might create some sounds.
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