The cost, usability and power efficiency of available wildlife monitoring equipment currently
inhibits full ground‐level coverage of many natural systems. Developments over the last …

Environmental sound is a powerful data source for investigating ecosystem health. To
capture it, scientists commonly use ruggedized, but expensive acoustic monitoring …

are urgently needed to understand how global change is affecting wildlife and ecosystems.
Sound is an important component of any habitat, and sound recordings made in the field …

Traditionally, animal species diversity and abundance is assessed using a variety of
methods that are generally costly, limited in space and time, and most importantly, they …

Nature sound recordings have been collected for over a hundred years, with an exponential
increase since the 1950s (Ranft 2004). Most such recordings were taken in order to describe …

Conservation researchers require low-cost access to acoustic monitoring technology.
However, affordable tools are often constrained to short-term studies due to high energy …

Autonomous acoustic recorders are widely available and can provide a highly efficient
method of species monitoring, especially when coupled with software to automate data …

Landscape‐scale bioacoustic projects have become a popular approach to biodiversity
monitoring. Combining passive acoustic monitoring recordings and automated detection …

Long duration acoustic monitoring is becoming an increasingly popular approach to extend
survey effort by using autonomous sensors to passively collect data over large temporal and …

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