"Krause has a word for the pristine acoustics of nature: biophony. It's what the world sounds like in the absence of humans. But in 40 percent of the locations where Krause has recorded over the past 40 years, human-generated noise has infiltrated the wilderness. 'It's getting harder and harder to find places that aren't contaminated,' he says." - Clive Thompson, 'How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology', 19 May 2008.
Referring to the biotic (group of animals living together) symphony in an ecosystem. (From Double-Tongued Dictionay)
"Krause has a word for the pristine acoustics of nature: biophony. It's what the world sounds like in the absence of humans. But in 40 percent of the locations where Krause has recorded over the past 40 years, human-generated noise has infiltrated the wilderness. 'It's getting harder and harder to find places that aren't contaminated,' he says."
- Clive Thompson, 'How Man-Made Noise May Be Altering Earth's Ecology', 19 May 2008.