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 as a potential tool to survey animal and ecosystem processes in freshwater environments

C Desjonquères, T Gifford, S Linke - Freshwater Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity in freshwater habitats is decreasing faster than in any other type of environment,
mostly as a result of human activities. Monitoring these losses can help guide mitigation …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of recording devices and environmental noise on acoustic index scores: Implications for bird sound-based assessments

C Zhang, Y Zhang, X Zheng, X Gao, Z Hao - Ecological Indicators, 2024 - Elsevier
Passive acoustic monitoring serves as a minimally invasive and effective method for
biodiversity assessment, particularly in bird monitoring through the application of acoustic …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of acoustic indices as indicators of vertebrate biodiversity

S Allen-Ankins, DT McKnight, EJ Nordberg, S Hoefer… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Effective monitoring tools are key for tracking biodiversity loss and informing management
intervention strategies. Passive acoustic monitoring promises to provide a cheap and …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the efficacy of visual encounter and automated acoustic survey methods in anuran assemblages of the Yungas Andean forests of Argentina

M Boullhesen, M Vaira, RM Barquez, MS Akmentins - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Identifying adequate methods and tools for biodiversity monitoring is fundamental in ecology
and conservation biology. Most of the standardised monitoring techniques involve the …

Automated species identification of frog choruses in environmental recordings using acoustic indices

S Brodie, S Allen-Ankins, M Towsey, P Roe… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Acoustic monitoring provides opportunities for scaling up bioacoustic study of vocal animals
to greater temporal and spatial scales. However, the large amounts of audio that can be …

Acoustic species distribution models (aSDMs): A framework to forecast shifts in calling behaviour under climate change

C Desjonquères, S Villén‐Pérez… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are a key tool for biogeography and climate change
research, although current approaches have some significant drawbacks. The use of …

[HTML][HTML] The Caatinga Orchestra: Acoustic indices track temporal changes in a seasonally dry tropical forest

EG Oliveira, MC Ribeiro, P Roe, RS Sousa-Lima - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in technologies for data acquisition, storage and analysis have boosted Acoustic
Ecology studies, but protocols are still lacking. There is a need of more research to …

Multi-index ecoacoustics analysis for terrestrial soundscapes: a new semi-automated approach using time-series motif discovery and random forest classification

MDA Scarpelli, B Liquet, D Tucker, S Fuller… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
High rates of biodiversity loss caused by human-induced changes in the environment
require new methods for large scale fauna monitoring and data analysis. While ecoacoustic …

“To be, or not to be”: critical assessment of the use of α-acoustic diversity indices to evaluate the richness and abundance of coastal marine fish sounds

X Raick, L Di Iorio, D Lecchini, M Bolgan… - Journal of …, 2023 - univ-perp.hal.science
Passive acoustic monitoring can be used to assess the presence of vocal species. Automatic
estimation of such information is critical for allowing diversity monitoring over long time …