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#Laser Vibrometer

Mainly used in engineering and car manufacturing, now #biologist gave it the role of a “microphone” for #vibrational communication. The laser beam is focused on a #plant and records the vibrations travelling in its surface (substrate-borne vibrations) with the software of choice (we use Raven Pro, a favorite for #ornithology). The vibrometer offers the possibility to listen passively (#PAM), without disrupting the animals. But there are problems…

#Introduction 2 / 2
What do I do? We are now able to #listen to a secret #environment hidden from our senses. I study #vibrational #communication in #insects. They use #plants to propagate their vibrational signals in #nature.
This branch of #Biology is named #Biotremology. Adapting the definition of #soundscape, we want to bring attention to the existence of a #vibroscape, that could be of special interest for #bioacoustics #conservation #ecoacoustics #behavior #science 🌱

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#Introduction 1 / 2
Fresh migration to ecoevo! My name is Juan and I am a #PhD student at the NIB (#Slovenia). I’m a #biologist and #musician. My field is #Biotremology, or the study of communication in animals by substrate-borne vibrations. In my case, I study hay-meadow habitats and their #vibroscape. I use laser vibrometers to record it.

Here is our paper on vibroscapes:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.828503/full

Hear some cool insect vibrations!

https://soundcloud.com/tremoneta

Here to #learn and share :D

https://soundcloud.com/tremoneta/obalni-travnik

:blobcatlisten:

#Vibroscape of a coastal meadow in #Slovenia. All the signals you can hear are from the local community of #insects. Imagine yourself for a second in the meadow, a tiny you, hanging in a blade of grass, feeling all these vibrations around you.

It can get loud out there! And the signals recorded are different from those recorded in meadows of a different habitat (as expected in my hypothesis, hurray!)

#bioacoustics #biotremology #ecoacoustics

#introduction
Some more details. Thanks to technology we are able now to #listen to a secret #environment hidden from our senses. I study #vibrational #communication in #insects. They use #plants to propagate their vibrational signals in nature.
This branch of #Biology is named #Biotremology. Adapting the definition of #soundscape, we want to bring attention to the existence of a #vibroscape , that could be of special interest for #bioacoustics #conservation #ecoacoustics #behavior #science 🌱