Juan López

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PhD student at NIB, Slovenia. Animal behavior, bioacoustics, substrate-borne vibrations🦗#vibroscape #Biotremology
CountrySlovenia
Vibroscapehttp://tinyurl.com/4n5x8b9k
Show threadJuan LópezJul 6, 2023
@ASleepyWanderer I have to say, this looks so beautiful and inspiring. Now I want to draw all over my field notebook, but I doubt I will reach this level! Did you get inspiration from a particular kind of art?
Show threadJuan LópezJul 5, 2023
@ccferrie in my case i love meadows, and you don’t get these kind of news every day :D imagine the community of insects that settled there as well. Small (but good) win for biodiversity!🌿
Juan LópezJul 4, 2023
Ciarán FerrieJul 3, 2023

Just three years after replacing their manicured front lawns with a wild flower meadow, Trinity College Dublin reports the emergence of rare orchid species in the heart of the city.

An incredible positive illustration of the benefits of allowing for biodiversity

#Biodiversity #NoMowMay #TCD #Dublin

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0703/1392111-orchids-dublin-trinity/

Juan LópezJul 4, 2023
New fieldwork danger: “Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts”. Great! #Biology #science https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00772-8
Juan LópezJul 3, 2023

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

 

#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

Show threadJuan LópezJul 3, 2023
@Virginicus not only the highway, but some km afar from it even. Cars, trains, sometimes planes... don't even want to think in a city. A different understanding of "noise pollution", but this one we were not aware off yet. They are tho, their activity calling each other is quite reduced when they can't "hear" each other. I guess they don't like death-metal that much
Show threadJuan LópezJul 3, 2023
@gregory_manni Thank you Gregory! Excited to interact more with this community and get a word out there about vibroscapes and biotremology. I was as shocked as you when I found this out! There is a lot to research ahead of us. Its such a different way to perceive the world, hard to imagine that a little patch of meadow contains a whole "silent" orchestra
Show threadJuan LópezJul 2, 2023
@solderandchaos another PhD here! Mine on Biotremology and vibroscapes. #biology 🌿
Juan LópezJul 2, 2023
Signals like this one. There are a lot of different #natural #sounds that we are slowly get to listen. You can find more examples here:
https://soundcloud.com/tremoneta
Juan LópezJul 2, 2023
#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 🌱