Animal vocalisations and natural soundscapes are fascinating objects of study, and contain
valuable evidence about animal behaviours, populations and ecosystems. They are studied …

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

Acoustic data provide scientific and engineering insights in fields ranging from biology and
communications to ocean and Earth science. We survey the recent advances and …

Animals produce vocalizations that range in complexity from a single repeated call to
hundreds of unique vocal elements patterned in sequences unfolding over hours …

In many areas of animal behaviour research, improvements in our ability to collect large and
detailed data sets are outstripping our ability to analyse them. These diverse, complex and …

Birds are considered critical indicators of ecosystem condition. Automatic recording devices
have emerged as a trending tool to assist field observations, contributing to biodiversity …

Passive acoustic sensing has emerged as a powerful tool for quantifying anthropogenic
impacts on biodiversity, especially for echolocating bat species. To better assess bat …

The origins of human language remains a major question in evolutionary science. Unique to
human language is the capacity to flexibly recombine a limited sound set into words and …

Historically, bird song has been regarded as a sex-specific signalling trait; males sing to
attract females and females drive the evolution of signal exaggeration by preferring males …

Urban green infrastructure, GI (eg, parks, gardens, green roofs) are potentially important
biodiversity habitats, however their full ecological capacity is poorly understood, in part due …