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 …

Standards and best practices for monitoring and benchmarking insects

GA Montgomery, MW Belitz, RP Guralnick… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Benchmark studies of insect populations are increasingly relevant and needed amid
accelerating concern about insect trends in the Anthropocene. The growing recognition that …

Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

O Mac Aodha, R Gibb, KE Barlow… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Passive acoustic sensing has emerged as a powerful tool for quantifying anthropogenic
impacts on biodiversity, especially for echolocating bat species. To better assess bat …

Acoustic monitoring for conservation in tropical forests: examples from forest elephants

PH Wrege, ED Rowland, S Keen… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The accelerating loss of biodiversity worldwide demands effective tools for monitoring
animal populations and informing conservation action. In habitats where direct observation …

Citizen science reveals trends in bat populations: the National Bat Monitoring Programme in Great Britain

KE Barlow, PA Briggs, KA Haysom, AM Hutson… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bats play an important role in ecosystems and are highly relevant as indicators of
environmental change. Long-term monitoring of bat populations is therefore fundamental to …

A roadmap for survey designs in terrestrial acoustic monitoring

LSM Sugai, C Desjonqueres… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is increasingly popular in ecological research and
conservation programs, with high‐volume and long‐term data collection provided by …

Building capacity in biodiversity monitoring at the global scale

DS Schmeller, M Böhm, C Arvanitidis… - Biodiversity and …, 2017 - Springer
Human-driven global change is causing ongoing declines in biodiversity worldwide. In order
to address these declines, decision-makers need accurate assessments of the status of and …

Towards the automated detection and occupancy estimation of primates using passive acoustic monitoring

AK Kalan, R Mundry, OJJ Wagner, S Heinicke… - Ecological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent advancements in technology have made possible the use of novel, cost-efficient
biomonitoring techniques which facilitate monitoring animal populations at larger spatial and …

Disentangling the relative effect of light pollution, impervious surfaces and intensive agriculture on bat activity with a national-scale monitoring program

C Azam, I Le Viol, JF Julien, Y Bas, C Kerbiriou - Landscape ecology, 2016 - Springer
Context Light pollution is a global change affecting a major proportion of global land surface.
Although the impacts of Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) have been documented locally for …

Detecting small changes in populations at landscape scales: a bioacoustic site-occupancy framework

CM Wood, VD Popescu, H Klinck, JJ Keane… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Occupancy modeling based on detection/non-detection data has become a common
approach for monitoring changes in the populations of both sensitive and invasive species …