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 (PAM) is quickly gaining ground in ecological research,
following global trends toward automated data collection and big data. Using unattended …

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

Assessing the presence and abundance of birds is important for monitoring specific species
as well as overall ecosystem health. Many birds are most readily detected by their sounds …

Acoustic surveys are a widely used sampling tool in ecological research and monitoring.
They are used to monitor populations and ecosystems and to study various aspects of …

Many organisms depend on sound for communication, predator/prey detection and
navigation. The acoustic environment can therefore play an important role in ecosystem …

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

Autonomous sound recording techniques have gained considerable traction in the last
decade, but the question remains whether they can replace human observation surveys to …

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 …