Global biodiversity is threatened by unprecedented and increasing anthropogenic
pressures, including habitat loss and fragmentation. LiDAR can become a decisive …

Technologies to monitor species are constantly evolving including the use of acoustic
recordings to determine species presence, activity patterns and population dynamics. The …

Monitoring biodiversity can be time consuming and costly. Automated recording units
(ARUs) have rapidly emerged as an efficient and cost-effective tool for measuring …

Monitoring biodiversity and assessing the impact of human activities using acoustics is a
promising area in the field of urban ecology. Previous studies on urban biodiversity using …

Context One mainstay of soundscape ecology is to understand acoustic pattern changes, in
particular the relative balance between biophony (biotic sounds), geophony (abiotic …

Passive acoustic monitoring has developed rapidly as a tool for ecological assessments,
and the use of acoustic indices to assess biodiversity in urban forests promises to be a low …

Understanding drivers and monitoring changes of biodiversity forms the basis for evidence-
based management and policy recommendations that aim to reduce biodiversity loss and to …

The COVID-19 shutdown has caused a quasi-experimental situation for ecologists in Spring
2020, providing an unprecedented release in acoustic space for avian soundscapes due to …

High-pass sound filters are a common form of audio manipulation that attenuates or
removes low frequency sounds from audio recordings. While high-pass filters are used to …

Context Most data collection and analyses in soundscape ecology have focused on summer
or breeding seasons in urban or protected landscapes, missing important acoustic dynamics …