Very little is known about goose-beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) and Sowerby’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon bidens), especially off the western coast of Ireland, due to their elusive behaviors. This study aimed to characterize the acoustics of...
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a noninvasive technique to supervise wildlife. Acoustic surveillance is preferable in some situations such as in the case of marine mammals, when the animals spend most of their time underwater, making it hard to...
Ecological surveys of coral reefs mostly rely on visual data collected by human observers. Although new monitoring tools are emerging, their specific advantages should be identified to optimise their simultaneous use. Based on the goodness-of-fit of...
The study of sound in the natural environment provides interesting information for researchers and policy makers driving conservation policies in our society. The soundscape characterises the biophony, anthrophony and geophony of a particular area. T...
Fish species’ biological vocalizations serve as essential acoustic signatures for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and ecological assessments. However, limited availability of high-quality acoustic recordings, particularly for region-specific...
Soundscape ecology is a rapidly growing field with approximately 93% of all scientific articles on this topic having been published since 2010 (total about 610 publications since 1985). Current acoustic technology is also advancing rapidly, enabling...
In recent years, several automated and noninvasive methods for wildlife monitoring, such as passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), have emerged. PAM consists of the use of acoustic sensors followed by sound interpretation to obtain ecological information...
Monitoring dolphins in the open sea is essential for understanding their behavior and the impact of human activities on the marine ecosystems. Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) is a non-invasive technique for tracking dolphins, providing continuous d...
In the global context of biodiversity loss, increased demand for natural resources, and major efforts to restore ecosystems altered by human activities, the widespread use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and acoustic recording devices allows for...
The Strait of Gibraltar is a major biogeographic bottleneck connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, where migratory cetaceans coexist with an intense maritime traffic. To evaluate the feasibility of broadband passive acoustic monitor...
The efficient analyses of sound recordings obtained through passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) might be challenging owing to the vast amount of data collected using such technique. The development of species-specific acoustic recognizers (e.g., throug...
Invasive alien species (IAS) are a threat to biodiversity and ecosystem function worldwide. Unfortunately, researchers, agencies, and other management groups face the unresolved challenge of effectively detecting and monitoring IAS at large spatial a...
In recent years, passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) technology has significantly contributed to advancements in aquaculture techniques, system iterations, and increased production yields within intelligent feeding systems for Penaeus vannamei. However...
Recent advances in passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) have markedly improved the ability to study marine soundscapes by enabling long-term, non-invasive monitoring of biological sounds across large spatial and temporal scales. Among aquatic organisms,...
Bare board AudioMoth recorders offer a low-cost, open-source solution to passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) but need protecting in an enclosure. We were concerned that the choice of enclosure may alter the spectral characteristics of recordings. We fo...
In the context of rapid urbanization, urban foresters are actively seeking management monitoring programs that address the challenges of urban biodiversity loss. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has attracted attention because it allows for the coll...
In the ocean environment, passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an important technique for the surveillance of cetacean species. Manual detection for a large amount of PAM data is inefficient and time-consuming. To extract useful features from a large...
Global biodiversity is in rapid decline, and many seabird species have disproportionally poorer conservation statuses than terrestrial birds. A good understanding of population dynamics is necessary for successful conservation efforts, making noninva...
The patterns of movement of the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)) in the Mediterranean Sea are still a matter of debate. Feeding aggregations are well known in the Corso-Liguro-Provençal Basin from July to September, but little is kn...
Marine mammal vocal elements have been investigated for decades to assess whether they correlate with stress levels or stress indicators. Due to their acoustic plasticity, the interpretation of dolphins’ acoustic signals of has been studied mos...
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) through acoustic recorder units (ARUs) shows promise in detecting early landscape changes linked to functional and structural patterns, including species richness, acoustic diversity, community interactions, and huma...
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an automatic and non-invasive method for long-term monitoring of bird vocal activity. PAM generates a large amount of data, and the automatic recognition of data poses significant challenges. BirdNET is a free-to-...
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a valuable tool for ecological research, but many eco-acoustic indices show inconsistent correlations with biodiversity due to methodological variability and environmental noise. We propose a complementary, physic...
In recent years, Taiwan’s government has focused on policies regarding offshore wind farming near the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin habitat, where marine mammal observation is a critical consideration. The present research developed an algorithm call...
The use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) can compensate for the shortcomings of traditional survey methods on spatial and temporal scales and achieve all-weather and wide-scale assessment and prediction of environmental dynamics. Assessing the im...
In recent decades, climate change has significantly influenced the frequency and intensity of wildfires across Mediterranean pine forests. The loss of forest cover can bring long-term ecological changes that impact the overall biodiversity and alter...
Within the MARCET European project and community framework, a Waveglider®™ SV2 vehicle was deployed, equipped with a passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) device, in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain)....
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is widely used as an initial step towards an assessment of environmental status. In the present study, underwater ambient sound recordings from two monitoring locations in marine-protected areas (MPAs) of the Gulf of...
Marine mammal vocalizations, such as those of the Northern Right Whale (NARW), are often masked by underwater acoustic noise. The acoustic vocalization signals are characterized by features such as their amplitude, timing, modulation, duration, and s...
Birds are important indicators of ecosystem health and provide a range of benefits to society. It is important, therefore, to understand the impacts of agricultural land use changes on bird populations. The cultivation of energycane (EC)—a suga...
Growing concern over anthropogenic underwater noise, highlighted by initiatives like the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and its Technical Group on Underwater Noise (TG Noise), emphasizes regions like the Western Black Sea, where increasin...
Marine organisms produce sounds for various purposes, including spawning, avoidance, and migration, with each species exhibiting unique acoustic characteristics. This study observed the grunt sounds of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) during the spa...
Grazing has long been recognized as an effective means of modifying natural habitats and, by extension, as a wildlife and protected area management tool, in addition to the obvious economic value it has for pastoral communities. A holistic approach t...
The-growing influence of urbanisation on green areas can greatly benefit from passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) across spatiotemporal continua to provide biodiversity estimation and useful information for conservation planning and development decisio...
The European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) is an Afro-Palearctic migrant whose populations have declined by 79% from 1980 to 2014. In 2018, the International Single Species Action Plan for the Turtle Dove (ISSAP) was developed with the goal of en...
Amphibian breeding phenology provides key insights into species’ sensitivity to climatic and anthropogenic drivers. We used passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) with automated call detection to examine the calling activity of Dryophytes japonicus...
AI tools like Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) and apps like iNaturalist and Merlin are increasingly used in bird monitoring and species identification. The purpose of this study was to assess whether AI-assisted binoculars improve bird species know...
Underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) serves as a core approach pervasively applied to the long-term, non-invasive detection of biological acoustic signals. Dolphin whistles serve as a fundamental aspect of vocal communication, exhibiting intr...
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) using hydrophones enables collecting acoustic data to be collected in large and diverse quantities, necessitating the need for a reliable automated classification system. This paper presents a data-processing pipelin...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), initially developed for image processing applications, have recently received significant attention within the field of medical ultrasound imaging. In this study, passive cavitation imaging/mapping (PCI/PAM), whi...
The time–frequency characteristics of dolphin whistle signals under diverse ecological conditions and during environmental changes are key research topics that focus on the adaptive and response mechanisms of dolphins to the marine environment....
The classification of vocal individuality for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and census of animals is becoming an increasingly popular area of research. Nearly all studies in this field of inquiry have relied on classic audio representations and c...