BACKGROUND Sound is the sensory cue that travels farthest through the ocean and is used
by marine animals, ranging from invertebrates to great whales, to interpret and explore the …

As biodiversity decreases worldwide, the development of effective techniques to track
changes in ecological communities becomes an urgent challenge. Together with other …

High‐throughput environmental sensing technologies are increasingly central to global
monitoring of the ecological impacts of human activities. In particular, the recent boom in …

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has emerged as a transformative tool for applied
ecology, conservation and biodiversity monitoring, but its potential contribution to …

Evidence that experiences of nature can benefit people has accumulated rapidly. Yet
perhaps because of the domination of the visual sense in humans, most research has …

Conservationists are increasingly using autonomous acoustic recorders to determine the
presence/absence and the abundance of bird species. Unlike humans, these recorders can …

Soundscape assessment has been proposed as a remote ecological monitoring tool for
measuring biodiversity, but few studies have examined how soundscape patterns vary with …

Acoustic signals constitute a source of information that can be used to measure the spatial
and temporal distributions of vocal organisms in ecosystems. Measuring and tracking those …

Interpreting acoustic recordings of the natural environment is an increasingly important
technique for ecologists wishing to monitor terrestrial ecosystems. Technological advances …

Passive acoustic monitoring could be a powerful way to assess biodiversity across large
spatial and temporal scales. However, extracting meaningful information from recordings …