Inequalities in noise will affect urban wildlife.

Autor: Nelson-Olivieri JR; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Layden TJ; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Antunez E; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Khalighifar A; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Lasky M; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Laverty TM; Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA., Sanchez KA; Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA., Shannon G; School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK., Starr S; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Verahrami AK; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Bombaci SP; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. sara.bombaci@colostate.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature ecology & evolution [Nat Ecol Evol] 2024 Jan; Vol. 8 (1), pp. 163-174. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 20.
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02257-9
Abstrakt: Understanding how systemic biases influence local ecological communities is essential for developing just and equitable environmental practices that prioritize both human and wildlife well-being. With over 270 million residents inhabiting urban areas in the United States, the socioecological consequences of racially targeted zoning, such as redlining, need to be considered in urban planning. There is a growing body of literature documenting the relationships between redlining and the inequitable distribution of environmental harms and goods, green space cover and pollutant exposure. However, it remains unknown whether historical redlining affects the distribution of urban noise or whether inequitable noise drives an ecological change in urban environments. Here we conducted a spatial analysis of how urban noise corresponds to the distribution of redlining categories and a systematic literature review to summarize the effects of noise on wildlife in urban landscapes. We found strong evidence to indicate that noise is inequitably distributed in redlined urban communities across the United States, and that inequitable noise may drive complex biological responses across diverse urban wildlife, reinforcing the interrelatedness of socioecological outcomes. These findings lay a foundation for future research that advances relationships between acoustic and urban ecology through centring equity and challenging systems of oppression in wildlife studies.
(© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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