Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis

I Alcocer, H Lima, LSM Sugai, D Llusia - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As biodiversity decreases worldwide, the development of effective techniques to track
changes in ecological communities becomes an urgent challenge. Together with other …

Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions

SRPJ Ross, DP O'Connell, JL Deichmann… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has emerged as a transformative tool for applied
ecology, conservation and biodiversity monitoring, but its potential contribution to …

Guidelines for the use of acoustic indices in environmental research

T Bradfer‐Lawrence, N Gardner… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ecoacoustics, the study of environmental sound, is a growing field with great potential for
biodiversity monitoring. Audio recordings could provide a rapid, cost‐effective monitoring …

Characterizing soundscapes across diverse ecosystems using a universal acoustic feature set

SS Sethi, NS Jones, BD Fulcher… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Natural habitats are being impacted by human pressures at an alarming rate. Monitoring
these ecosystem-level changes often requires labor-intensive surveys that are unable to …

Using acoustic indices in ecology: Guidance on study design, analyses and interpretation

T Bradfer‐Lawrence, C Desjonqueres… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of passive acoustic monitoring and the rapid growth in large audio datasets is
driving the development of analysis methods that allow ecological inferences to be drawn …

Connecting soundscape to landscape: Which acoustic index best describes landscape configuration?

S Fuller, AC Axel, D Tucker, SH Gage - Ecological indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Soundscape assessment has been proposed as a remote ecological monitoring tool for
measuring biodiversity, but few studies have examined how soundscape patterns vary with …

Bird population declines and species turnover are changing the acoustic properties of spring soundscapes

CA Morrison, A Auniņš, Z Benkő, L Brotons… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Natural sounds, and bird song in particular, play a key role in building and maintaining our
connection with nature, but widespread declines in bird populations mean that the acoustic …

[HTML][HTML] Biases of acoustic indices measuring biodiversity in urban areas

AJ Fairbrass, P Rennert, C Williams, H Titheridge… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban green infrastructure, GI (eg, parks, gardens, green roofs) are potentially important
biodiversity habitats, however their full ecological capacity is poorly understood, in part due …

Sounding out ecoacoustic metrics: Avian species richness is predicted by acoustic indices in temperate but not tropical habitats

A Eldridge, P Guyot, P Moscoso, A Johnston… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Affordable, autonomous recording devices facilitate large scale acoustic monitoring and
Rapid Acoustic Survey is emerging as a cost-effective approach to ecological monitoring; …

[LIVRE][B] Sound analysis and synthesis with R

J Sueur - 2018 - Springer
Sound is virtually always around us, everywhere, all the time. This morning, my day started
on a rather unpleasant one: that of the repeated buzzing of my alarm clock. The night had …