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Data for: Zebra finch song ecology: monitoring of breeding, observational transects, focal and year-round acoustic recordings, and a large-scale simultaneous playback experiment
<p class="MsoNormal">Male songbirds sing to establish territories and to attract mates. However, increasing reports of singing in non-reproductive contexts and by females show that song use is more diverse than previously considered. Therefore, alternative functions of song, such as social cohesion and synchronisation of breeding, by and large were overlooked even in such well-studied species as the zebra finch (<em>Taeniopygia guttata</em>). In these social songbirds only the males sing and pairs breed synchronously in loose colonies following aseasonal rain events in their arid habitat. As males are not territorial, and pairs form long-term monogamous bonds early in life, conventional theory predicts that zebra finches should not sing much at all; yet they do and their song is the focus of hundreds of lab-based studies. We hypothesise that zebra finch song functions to maintain social cohesion and to synchronise breeding. Here we test this idea using data from five years of field studies, including observational transects, focal and year-round audio recordings, and a large-scale playback experiment. We show that zebra finches frequently sing while in groups, that breeding status influences song output at the nest and at aggregations, that they sing year-round, and that they predominantly sing when with their partner, suggesting that song remains important after pair formation. Our playback reveals that song actively features in social aggregations as it attracts conspecifics. Together, these results demonstrate that birdsong has important functions beyond territoriality and mate choice, illustrating its importance in coordination and cohesion of social units within larger societies.</p>
Data for: Large-scale long-term passive-acoustic monitoring reveals spatiotemporal activity patterns of boreal bats
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The distribution ranges and spatio-temporal patterns in the occurrence and activity of boreal bats are yet largely unknown due to their cryptic lifestyle and lack of suitable and efficient study methods. We approached the issue by establishing a permanent passive-acoustic sampling setup spanning the area of Finland to gain an understanding on how latitude affects bat species composition and activity patterns in northern Europe. The recorded bat calls were semi-automatically identified for three target taxa; <em>Myotis</em> spp., <em>Eptesicus nilssonii</em> or <em>Pipistrellus nathusii</em> and the seasonal activity patterns were modeled for each taxa across the seven sampling years (2015–2021). We found an increase in activity since 2015 for <em>E. nilssonii</em> and <em>Myotis </em>spp. For <em>E. nilssonii</em> and <em>Myotis</em> spp. we found significant latitude -dependent seasonal activity patterns, where seasonal variation in patterns appeared stronger in the north. Over the years, activity of <em>P. nathusii</em> increased during activity peak in June and late season but decreased in mid season. We found the passive-acoustic monitoring </span><span>network to be an effective and cost-efficient method for gathering b</span><span>at activity data to analyze spatio-temporal patterns. Long-term data on the composition and dynamics of bat communities facilitates better estimates of abundances and population trend directions for conservation purposes and predicting the effects of cli</span><span>mate change.</span></p>
Passive acoustic monitoring applied to black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
<p>Data accompanying the paper: <strong>"An integrated passive acoustic monitoring and deep learning pipeline applied to black-and-white ruffed lemurs (\textit{Varecia variegata}) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar"</strong></p> <p>Fieldwork was conducted at Mangevo (21.3833S, 47.4667E), an isolated and undisturbed forest location within Ranomafana National Park (RNP), located in southeastern Madagascar, during the period of May to July 2019. To facilitate passive acoustic monitoring, we deployed a total of two SongMeter SM4 devices (manufactured by Wildlife Acoustics) and two Swift units (provided by the Cornell Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics). The placement of these recorders was strategically chosen within the central regions of known subgroups, ensuring a minimum distance of 300 meters between each device. The SongMeter devices operated at a sampling rate of 48 kHz, while the Swift units operated at 32 kHz, respectively, enabling comprehensive audio data collection throughout the study period.</p> <p>We provide the audio data (.wav) used to train and test our neural network classifier along with the corresponding labelled text files (.data).</p> <p><strong>Files provided</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Test_Audio.zip </strong>-- contains (.wav) testing audio files</li> <li><strong>Test_Annotations.zip </strong>-- contains (.svl) manually annotated testing files which can be read in using Sonic Visualiser or by parsing the XML file in Python or another programming language. Load in the audio file into Sonic Visualiser and then drag-and-drop the corresponding .svl file.</li> <li><strong>Training_Audio_batch_x.zip -</strong>- several .zip files were created to simplify downloading. There are 10 batches, each is roughly 4GB. Each batch contains (.wav) training audio files</li> <li><strong>Training_Annotations.zip</strong> -- contains (.svl) manually annotated training files which can be read in using Sonic Visualiser or by parsing the XML file in Python or another programming language. Load in the audio file into Sonic Visualiser and then drag-and-drop the corresponding .svl file.</li> <li><strong>model_weights_tensorflow.hdf5 </strong>-- the Tensorflow model. Load the model using: model = tf.keras.models.load_model(model_filepath) note that the model expects a three channel input as explained in the research article.</li> </ul>
Data from: Optimizing passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for Biodiversity Studies: using species-area relationship (SAR) to predict species richness
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Acoustic features as a tool to visualize and explore marine soundscapes: Applications illustrated using marine mammal Passive Acoustic Monitoring datasets
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Recordings from: Evaluation of a coastal acoustic buoy for cetacean detections, bearing accuracy, and exclusion zone monitoring
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Decadal acoustic monitoring of toothed whales in the Gulf of Mexico post-oil spill
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Data for: Large-scale long-term passive-acoustic monitoring reveals spatiotemporal activity patterns of boreal bats
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Estimating the abundance of the critically endangered Baltic Proper harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) population using passive acoustic monitoring
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Data for: Zebra finch song ecology: monitoring of breeding, observational transects, focal and year-round acoustic recordings, and a large-scale simultaneous playback experiment
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Data and code for: Time of night and moonlight structure vertical space use by insectivorous bats in a Neotropical rainforest: an acoustic monitoring study
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Previous research has shown diverse vertical space use by various taxa, highlighting the importance of forest canopy. Yet, we often fail to explore how this three-dimensional space use changes over time. Here we use canopy tower systems in French Guiana to monitor neotropical bat activity above and below the forest canopy throughout nine nights in the wet season. We show that different bats use both canopy and understory space differently, and that this can change throughout the night. We find that bats are overall more active in the canopy, but multiple species/acoustic complexes are more active in the understory. We also find that species that do not seem to prefer understory or canopy, when data are aggregated by night, do show temporally changing preferences in hourly activity. This work highlights the need to consider temporal axes in studies of space use, both throughout daily cycles and across seasons.</p>
Dataset from 'Size Distribution of Sperm Whales Acoustically Identified During Long Term Deep-Sea Monitoring in the Ionian Sea'
<p>This dataset is from the study:</p> <p>Caruso Francesco, Virginia Sciacca, Giorgio Bellia, Emilio De Domenico, Giuseppina Larosa, Elena Papale, Carmelo Pellegrino, Sara Pulvirenti, Giorgio Riccobene, Francesco Simeone, Fabrizio Speziale, Salvatore Viola and Gianni Pavan. “Size Distribution of Sperm Whales Acoustically Identified During Long Term Deep-Sea Monitoring in the Ionian Sea.”</p> <p>The archive named NEMO-OvDE Dataset.zip contains the results of an automatic analysis developed and applied to the data acquired by the Ocean noise Detection Experiment. In detail, a subsample of the large dataset was processed to assess the size of the recorded sperm whales, by measuring the structure of their acoustic signals. The dataset consists in several plots generated by the algorithm described in the cited research article. The files are in PNG format. These data were used to study the size distribution of the sperm whale recorded during the OvDE Passive Acoustic Monitoring.</p> <p>For further information: riccobene@lns.infn.it (Principal Investigator of the Ocean noise Detection Experiment)</p>
Comparing distribution of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) derived from satellite telemetry and passive acoustic monitoring
<p>Data used for publication in Plos One. Two excel files. The satellite_filtered_data is the filtered satellite positions used for MaxEnt modelling in R. The CPOD_data_PPH is the raw C-POD data expressed here as porpoises positive hours (PPH) and can easily be converted to porpoise positive days (PPD).</p>
A labelled dataset of the loud calls of four vertebrates collected using passive acoustic monitoring in Malaysian Borneo
<p><em>Passive acoustic monitoring data collection</em></p> <p>We collected data using first generation Swift autonomous recording units (ARUs) (Koch et al. 2016) with a microphone sensitivity of −44 (+/−3) dB re 1 V/Pa. The microphone frequency response was not measured but is assumed to be flat (+/− 2 dB) in the frequency range 100 Hz to 7.5 kHz. The analog signal was amplified by 40 dB and digitized (16-bit resolution) using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a clipping level of −/+ 0.9 V. We collected acoustic data from one primary conservation area in Sabah, Malaysia: Danum Valley Conservation Area (with 11 recording units from March to July 2018). Danum Valley covers an area of roughly 440 km², and is characterized by lowland dipterocarp forest. Unlike many tropical forest regions, this area is considered 'aseasonal' due to its lack of clearly differentiated wet and dry seasons (Walsh and Newbery 1999). In Danum Valley, the ARUs recorded at a sampling rate of 16 kHz. All recordings were saved in waveform audio (.wav) format, with files of 2-hr duration. We affixed each recording unit to trees approximately 2-m above the ground and recorded continuously over 24 hours. We set the units on a 750 m grid structure, and preliminary field tests indicate that with these recording settings the detection range of gibbon vocalizations is ~ 400 m.</p> <p> </p> <p><em>Acoustic data processing </em></p> <p>We randomly chose approximately 500 h of recordings from Danum Valley Conservation Area to use to create a training dataset. We used a band-limited energy detector (BLED) to identify potential sounds of interest in the gibbon frequency range. For the BLED detector, we convert the 2-hr recordings into a spectrogram using a 1,600-point (100 ms) Hamming window (3 dB bandwidth = 13 Hz) with 0% overlap and a 2,048-point DFT, with the "seewave" package (Sueur et al. 2008). We then filtered the spectrogram to focus on the desired frequency range, specifically 0.5–1.6 kHz for Northern grey gibbons. For each unique time window in the recording, we determined the total energy across frequency bins which gave a single value for every 100 ms interval. Utilizing the "quantile" function in base R, we established the threshold to delineate signal from noise. Preliminary tests with varied quantile values revealed that the 15th quantile led to optimized recall for our target signal. This approach resulted in 1,439 unique sound events. The sound events were then annotated by a single observer (DJC) using a custom-written function in R to visualize the spectrograms into the following categories: great argus pheasant (<em>Argusianus argus</em>) long and short calls (Clink et al. 2021), helmeted hornbills (<em>Rhinoplax vigil</em>), rhinoceros hornbills (<em>Buceros rhinoceros</em>), female gibbons (<em>Hylobates funereus</em>) and a catch-all “noise” category. </p> <p><em>Update Version 5 and later</em></p> <p>Includes labeled test clips from a second conservation area, Maliau Basin Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia recorded during August 2019. The ARUs recorded at a sampling rate of 16 kHz. All recordings were saved in waveform audio (.wav) format, with files of 2-hr duration. We affixed each recording unit to trees approximately 2-m above the ground and recorded continuously over 24 hours.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p>Clink, D. J., Groves, T., Ahmad, A. H., & Klinck, H. (2021). Not by the light of the moon: Investigating circadian rhythms and environmental predictors of calling in Bornean great argus. <em>PloS one</em>, <em>16</em>(2), e0246564.</p> <p>Koch, R., Raymond, M., Wrege, P., & Klinck, H. (2016). SWIFT: A small, low-cost acoustic recorder for terrestrial wildlife monitoring applications. In <em>North American Ornithological Conference</em> (p. 619). Washington, D.C.</p> <p>Sueur, J., Aubin, T., & Simonis, C. (2008). Seewave: a free modular tool for sound analysis and synthesis. <em>Bioacoustics</em>, <em>18</em>, 213–226.</p> <p>Walsh, R. P., & Newbery, D. M. (1999). The ecoclimatology of Danum, Sabah, in the context of the world’s rainforest regions, with particular reference to dry periods and their impact. <em>Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences</em>, <em>354</em>(1391), 1869–83. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1999.0528</p> <p>Webb, C. O., & Ali, S. (2002). Plants and vegetation of the Maliau Basin Conservation Area, Sabah, East Malaysia. <em>Final Report to Maliau Basin Management Committee</em>.</p> <p> </p>
Thyolo alethe (Chamaetylas choloensis) calls for passive acoustic monitoring
<p>Data accompanying the paper: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning"</p> <p><strong>Please cite this dataset as:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Dufourq, Emmanuel and Batist, Carly and Foquet, Ruben and Durbach, Ian. (2022). Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning. BioRxiv doi: </p> </blockquote> <p>This dataset contains approximately 10 hours of audio that contained calls of the vulnerable Thyolo Alethe (Chamaetylas choloensis). The audio data was collected in the Mount Mulanje Biosphere Reserve, Malawi using 10 Audiomoths. The sampling rate was set to 32,000Hz and the recordings were obtained over five days in November 2020. A larger dataset exists.</p> <p>The annotations files are in (.svl) format which is compatible with SonicVisualiser (https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/). Each audio file has a corresponding .svl file. Each .svl has segments of audio that were manually annotated as either ''thyolo-alethe" (presence class) or "noise" (absence class) -- this dataset can be used to train a binary classification model.</p> <p>The audio files are provided in "Audio.zip" and the manually verified annotation in "Annotations.zip".</p>
Pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) calls for passive acoustic monitoring
<p>Data accompanying the paper: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning"</p> <p><strong>Please cite this dataset as:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Dufourq, Emmanuel and Batist, Carly and Foquet, Ruben and Durbach, Ian. (2022). Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning. BioRxiv doi: </p> </blockquote> <p>This dataset contains approximately 6 hours of audio that contained calls of the pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura). The audio data was collected in the Intaka Island Nature Reserve in Cape Town, South Africa using 1 Audiomoth. The sampling rate was set to 48,000Hz and the recordings were obtained over four days in January 2021. A larger dataset exists.</p> <p>The annotations files are in (.svl) format which is compatible with SonicVisualiser (https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/). Each audio file has a corresponding .svl file. Each .svl has segments of audio that were manually annotated as either ''thyolo-alethe" (presence class) or "noise" (absence class) -- this dataset can be used to train a binary classification model.</p> <p>The audio files are provided in "Audio.zip" and the manually verified annotation in "Annotations.zip".</p>
Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) calls for passive acoustic monitoring
<p>Data accompanying the paper: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning"</p> <p><strong>Please cite this dataset as:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Dufourq, Emmanuel and Batist, Carly and Foquet, Ruben and Durbach, Ian. (2022). Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning. BioRxiv doi: </p> </blockquote> <p>This dataset contains approximately 60 hours of audio that contained calls of the critically endangered Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata). The audio data was collected in a sub-humid rainforest site (Mangevo) in the southeast of Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar using 2 Swift recorders (Cornell Center for Conservation Bioacoustics). The sampling rate was set to 48,000Hz and the recordings were collected intermittently between May 2019 and November 2020. A larger dataset exists and further recordings will be released.</p> <p>The annotations files are in (.svl) format which is compatible with SonicVisualiser (https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/). Each audio file has a corresponding .svl file. Each .svl has segments of audio that were manually annotated as either ''thyolo-alethe" (presence class) or "noise" (absence class) -- this dataset can be used to train a binary classification model.</p> <p>The audio files are provided in "Audio.zip" and the manually verified annotation in "Annotations.zip".</p>
Hainan gibbons (Nomascus hainanus) calls for passive acoustic monitoring
<p><em>This dataset extends an existing one (10.5281/zenodo.3991714).</em></p> <p>Data accompanying the paper: "Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning"</p> <p><strong>Please cite this dataset as:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Dufourq, Emmanuel and Batist, Carly and Foquet, Ruben and Durbach, Ian. (2022). Passive Acoustic Monitoring and Transfer Learning. BioRxiv doi: </p> </blockquote> <p>This dataset contains approximately 10 hours of audio that contained calls of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons (Nomascus hainanus). The audio data was collected in the Bawangling National Nature Reserve, Malawi using 8 Song Meter SM3 recorders. The sampling rate was set to 9,600Hz and the recordings were collected between March to August 2016.</p> <p>The annotations files are in (.svl) format which is compatible with SonicVisualiser (https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/). Each audio file has a corresponding .svl file. Each .svl has segments of audio that were manually annotated as either ''gibbon" (presence class) or "no-gibbon" (absence class) -- this dataset can be used to train a binary classification model.</p> <p>The audio files are provided in "Audio.zip" and the manually verified annotation in "Annotations.zip".</p>
Data from: Passive acoustic monitoring provides reliable under-estimates of population size and longevity in wild Savannah Sparrows
<p>Many breeding birds produce conspicuous sounds, providing tremendous opportunities to study free-living birds through acoustic recordings. Traditional methods for studying population size and demographic features depend on labour-intensive field research. Passive acoustic monitoring provides an alternative method for quantifying population size and demographic parameters, but this approach requires careful validation. To determine the accuracy of passive acoustic monitoring for estimating population size and demographic parameters, we used autonomous recorders to sample an island-living population of Savannah Sparrows (<em>Passerculus sandwichensis</em>) over a six-year period. Using the individually distinctive songs of males, we estimated male population size as the number of unique songs detected in the recordings. We analyzed songs across six years to estimate birth year, death year, and longevity. We then compared the estimates to field data in a blind analysis. Estimates of male population size through passive acoustic monitoring were, on average, 72% of the true male population size, with higher accuracy in lower-density years. Estimates of demographic rates were lower than true values by 29% for birth year, 23% for death year, and 29% for longevity. This is the first investigation to estimate longevity with passive acoustic monitoring, and adds to a growing number of studies that have used passive acoustic monitoring to estimate population size. Although passive acoustic monitoring under-estimated true population parametersfeatures, likely due to the high similarity among many male songs, our findings suggest that autonomous recorders can provide reliable estimates of population size and demographic characteristicslongevity in a wild songbird.</p>
Data from: Early detection of human impacts using acoustic monitoring: an example with forest elephants
<p>The impacts of human activities and climate change on animal populations often take considerable time before they are reflected in typical measures of population health such as population size, demography, and landscape use. Earlier detection of such impacts could enhance the effectiveness of conservation strategies, particularly for species with slow population growth. Passive acoustic monitoring is increasingly used to estimate occupancy and population size, but this tool can also monitor subtle shifts in behavior that might be early indicators of changing impacts. Here we use data from an acoustic grid, monitoring 1250 km<sup>2</sup> of forest in the northern Republic of Congo, to study how forest elephants (<em>Loxodonta cyclotis</em>) assess the risk of poaching across a landscape that includes a national park as well as active and inactive logging concessions. By quantifying emerging patterns of behavior at the population level, arising from individual-based decisions, we gain an understanding of how elephants perceive their landscape along an axis of human disturbance. Forest elephants in relatively undisturbed forests are active nearly equally day and night. However, they become more nocturnal when exposed to a perceived risk such as poaching. We assessed elephant perception of risk by monitoring changes in the likelihood of nocturnal activity relative to differing levels of human activity. We show that logging is perceived to be a risk on short-time and small spatial scales but with little effect on animal density. However, risk avoidance persisted in areas with relatively easy access to poachers and in more open habitats where poaching has historically been concentrated. Increased nocturnal activity is a common response in many animals to human intrusion on the landscape. Provided a species is acoustically active, passive acoustic monitoring can measure changes in human impact at the early stages of such change, informing management priorities.</p>
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