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Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity
Although eco-acoustic monitoring has the potential to deliver biodiversity insight on vast scales, existing analytical approaches behave unpredictably across studies. We collated 8,023 audio recordings with paired manual avifaunal point counts to investigate whether soundscapes could be used to moni...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10482675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37524796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02148-z |
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author | Sethi, Sarab S. Bick, Avery Ewers, Robert M. Klinck, Holger Ramesh, Vijay Tuanmu, Mao-Ning Coomes, David A. |
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description | Although eco-acoustic monitoring has the potential to deliver biodiversity insight on vast scales, existing analytical approaches behave unpredictably across studies. We collated 8,023 audio recordings with paired manual avifaunal point counts to investigate whether soundscapes could be used to monitor biodiversity across diverse ecosystems. We found that neither univariate indices nor machine learning models were predictive of species richness across datasets but soundscape change was consistently indicative of community change. Our findings indicate that there are no common features of biodiverse soundscapes and that soundscape monitoring should be used cautiously and in conjunction with more reliable in-person ecological surveys. |
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spelling | pubmed-104826752023-09-08 Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity Sethi, Sarab S. Bick, Avery Ewers, Robert M. Klinck, Holger Ramesh, Vijay Tuanmu, Mao-Ning Coomes, David A. Nat Ecol Evol Brief Communication Although eco-acoustic monitoring has the potential to deliver biodiversity insight on vast scales, existing analytical approaches behave unpredictably across studies. We collated 8,023 audio recordings with paired manual avifaunal point counts to investigate whether soundscapes could be used to monitor biodiversity across diverse ecosystems. We found that neither univariate indices nor machine learning models were predictive of species richness across datasets but soundscape change was consistently indicative of community change. Our findings indicate that there are no common features of biodiverse soundscapes and that soundscape monitoring should be used cautiously and in conjunction with more reliable in-person ecological surveys. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-07-31 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10482675/ /pubmed/37524796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02148-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Sethi, Sarab S. Bick, Avery Ewers, Robert M. Klinck, Holger Ramesh, Vijay Tuanmu, Mao-Ning Coomes, David A. Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity |
title | Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity |
title_full | Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity |
title_fullStr | Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity |
title_full_unstemmed | Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity |
title_short | Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity |
title_sort | limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10482675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37524796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02148-z |
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