Emerging opportunities and challenges for passive acoustics in ecological assessment and monitoring

R Gibb, E Browning, P Glover‐Kapfer… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput environmental sensing technologies are increasingly central to global
monitoring of the ecological impacts of human activities. In particular, the recent boom in …

Measuring acoustic habitats

ND Merchant, KM Fristrup, MP Johnson… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many organisms depend on sound for communication, predator/prey detection and
navigation. The acoustic environment can therefore play an important role in ecosystem …

Acoustic indices for biodiversity assessment and landscape investigation

J Sueur, A Farina, A Gasc, N Pieretti… - Acta Acustica united …, 2014‏ - ingentaconnect.com
Bioacoustics is historically a discipline that essentially focuses on individual behaviour in
relation to population and species evolutionary levels but rarely in connection with higher …

Marine mammal conservation: over the horizon

SE Nelms, J Alfaro-Shigueto, JPY Arnould… - Endangered Species …, 2021‏ - int-res.com
Marine mammals can play important ecological roles in aquatic ecosystems, and their
presence can be key to community structure and function. Consequently, marine mammals …

[HTML][HTML] A review of unmanned vehicles for the detection and monitoring of marine fauna

UK Verfuss, AS Aniceto, DV Harris, D Gillespie… - Marine pollution …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Recent technology developments have turned present-day unmanned systems into realistic
alternatives to traditional marine animal survey methods. Benefits include longer survey …

Automated bioacoustics: methods in ecology and conservation and their potential for animal welfare monitoring

MP Mcloughlin, R Stewart… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Vocalizations carry emotional, physiological and individual information. This suggests that
they may serve as potentially useful indicators for inferring animal welfare. At the same time …

Comparing the sampling performance of sound recorders versus point counts in bird surveys: A meta‐analysis

K Darras, P Batáry, B Furnas… - Journal of applied …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous sound recording is a promising sampling method for birds and other vocalizing
terrestrial wildlife. However, while there are clear advantages of passive acoustic monitoring …

Physics‐based model to predict the acoustic detection distance of terrestrial autonomous recording units over the diel cycle and across seasons: Insights from an …

S Haupert, F Sèbe, J Sueur - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring of biodiversity is growing fast, as it offers an alternative to
traditional aural point count surveys, with the possibility to deploy long‐term acoustic …

Detection and classification of marine mammal sounds using AlexNet with transfer learning

T Lu, B Han, F Yu - Ecological Informatics, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In this study, AlexNet with transfer learning was employed to automatically detect and
classify the sounds of killer whales, long-finned pilot whales, and harp seals with widely …

[HTML][HTML] Marine health of the Arabian Gulf: Drivers of pollution and assessment approaches focusing on desalination activities

H Hosseini, I Saadaoui, N Moheimani, M Al Saidi… - Marine Pollution …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Arabian Gulf is one of the most adversely affected marine environments
worldwide, which results from combined pollution drivers including climate change, oil and …