• About NoiseQuest
• About Airports
• Noise Basics and Metrics
• Sources of Aviation Noise
• Sources of Non-Aviation Noise
• What does Noise Affect?
  • How does Noise affect People?
    • Psychological Effects
      • What is Long-Term Community Annoyance and How is it Measured?
      • How Does Aircraft Noise Interfere with Speech Communication?
      • How Does Aircraft Noise affect Sleep?
    • Physiological Effects
  • How does Noise affect Domestic Animals and Wildlife?
    • Domestic Animals
    • Wildlife
    • Fish, Reptiles, and Amphibians
    • Summary
  • Other Noise Related Effects
  • References
• What to do About Noise?
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• Ongoing Research Efforts
• Supplemental Metrics
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What does noise affect?

Noise is present everywhere in our daily lives, in our jobs, and in nature. Noise is with us wherever we go, so it is important for us to understand what noise affects.

In this section, we will discuss the research on the effects of aviation noise on:

• People (including both psychological and physiological effects) – How Does Noise Affect People?
• Animals - How Does Noise Affect Domestic Animals and Wildlife?
• Physical Objects (including impacts on property values, structures, terrain, and historical and archeological sites – Other Noise Related Effects

For a reference list of sources used to support this section, click here.

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