Medium-specific sound transmission across solids, liquids, and gas yields distinct sonic ecologies.

Evidence

Sound is transmitted in air and in water as well, but soil and rock are permeable to vibration to some extent. Thus, the transmission of sounds that occurs in solids, in liquids, and in a gas medium has different and distinct physical modalities (such as speed, impedance, excess of attenuation). For this reason, we can expect different mechanisms of perception and strategies of communication used by organisms living in these different contexts, that is, we expect different “sonic ecologies.” — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 52

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes why medium (air/water/soil) changes both transmission physics and organism communication strategy — basis for aquatic vs terrestrial soundscape analysis.
• XREF: connects to: Water produces different sounds when striking different surfaces and materials. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 838; Sound propagates through a medium via masses connected by intermolecular forces. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 50; Sound propagation depends on interactions with objects and the medium — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 322 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Water produces different sounds when striking different surfaces and materials. #exemplifies (0.85) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 838
• Sound propagation depends on interactions with objects and the medium #expands (0.80) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 322
• Sound propagates through a medium via masses connected by intermolecular forces. #expands (0.78) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 50
• Sound requires a physical medium to propagate through #expands (0.75)