A sonic One Health framework: characterizing health of the environment, animals, and humans using a soundscape perspective
Abstract We present a sonic One Health framework with environmental, animal and human health integration centering on understanding positive and negative effects from the sounds of nature or the sounds from society. Our framework includes a sonic One Health system that describes sound and health; a sonic One Health network that describes specialists needed in our sonic One Health system; a human sonic effects model that reviews how sounds effect the auditory, neurological, cardiovascular, hormonal, and immunological systems; and an integrated set of sonic One Health remediation pathways. We review the literature in noise and health, environmental psychology as it relates to restorative effects of being in nature, and approaches to monitoring sound and perception. We also present three brief case studies, describe future directions for research across eight themes, discuss novel and challenging aspects of our framework, and describe the role that AI may play in our framework.
Authors
- Malinda J. McPherson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0786-6774)
- Michael G. Heinz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1524-402X)
- Bryan C. Pijanowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7089-1959)
- Christina Eviutami Mediastika (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9049-4897)
- Jennifer C. Post
- Tae Hong Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4729-9395)
- Thomas G. Sors (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1492-2933)
- Courtney S. Werner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0442-9811)
- Aditya Francis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2813-9277)
- Olin E. Rhodes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7271-9805)
- Francisco Rivas Fuenzalida
- Jian Kang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8995-5636)
- Sarah E. Grimes
Institutions
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Georgia (US)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- Universitas Ciputra (ID)
- The London College (GB)
- Department of Forestry (MW)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BioScience
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf109
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Noise Effects and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.12
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
- Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo
- National Institutes of Health
- University of Georgia Research Foundation
- Science Mission Directorate
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences