A view into Soil Ecoacoustics

Barely audible to human ears, healthy soils produce a cacophony of sounds in many forms - a bit like an underground rave concert of bubbles and clicks.
Special recordings made by Flinders University ecologists in Australia show this chaotic mixture of soundscapes can be a measure of the diversity of tiny living animals in the soil, which create sounds as they move and interact with their environment.
Check out the paper here: besjournals.on...