Publications, Resource links, and more to come

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Journal Publications

  • A Framework to Identify Priority Wetland Habitats and Movement Corridors for Urban Amphibian Conservation (2022).
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  • Advancing Amphibian Conservation through Citizen Science in Urban Municipalities (2021).
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  • Effects of Ambient Noise on Detectability and Localization of Avian Songs and Tones by Observers in Grasslands (2015).
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  • Pre‑breeding Energetic Management in a Mixed‑strategy Breeder (2014).
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  • Vocal Signals Predict Attack During Aggressive Interactions in Black-capped Chickadees (2012).
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Technical Communications

  • Running the Tech Treadmill on a Budget: Testing Relative Performance and Providing Considerations for Using Low-cost or Old Autonomous Recording Units
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Talks and Conference Presentations

  • How Far Can we Hear with Bioacoustics? (2018). ASPB

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  • Do you only get what you pay for? Comparing low-cost recording units to the field standard (2020). ACTWS 
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  • Earth, Wind, & Fire – Amphibian Response to Wildfires, Windfarms and more.
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  • Small & Mighty: Silence is the Alarm in Water Health
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Open Source Data

  • Field-based Testing of Sound Reception By Autonomous Recording Units- AudioMoth, SongMeter4, and SoundCache (2018).
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Our Github

  • Find us at github under AVianEco for repositories with open-source R-scripts and other tools.
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Resources updated periodically. Last Update 03APR2024

Audio and Spectrogram References

Multi-Taxa Amphibians
Macaulay Library BC Frogs and Toads
Acoustic Atlas California Herps
Xeno Canto Call of the Wetland
Yellowstone Sound Library Naturewatch- Frogwatch
  AVAMP- Amphibian ID
Birds  
Dendroica Insects
All About Birds Singing Insects of North America
  Orthoptera Species File Online
Bats  
Wyoming ANABAT Call Key Fish
Montana Bat Call ID Training FishSounds
Sonobat Eastern Bat Call Characteristics  
Sonobat Western Bat Call Characteristics  
   

Remote Detection Hardware

Acoustic Monitoring Equipment Remote Camera Equipment
Avisoft Browning
Cornell SwiftOne Reconyx
Frontier Labs  
Open Acoustic Devices Focal Recording
Peersonic Marantz
Titley Scientific Tascam Recorders
Wildlife Acoustics Seinheiser
  Zoom Recorders
Headphones and Speakers  
AudioTechnica Hardware Reviews
Bose rtings.com
FoxPro  
Razer Opus Learn about Hardware
  SD Cards
  GUANO metadata notation
   

Remote Detection Software

Audio Analysis Software Photo Analysis Software
Audacity
Timelapse
Anabat Insight EcoAssist
Bat Call ID BuckView
Faber Acoustics – SoundMeterX  
Kaleidoscope ML Models
Raven MegaDetector
SASLab Pro BirdNET
Sonobat NABat Acoustic ML
   
Online Processing Platforms R Packages
WildTrax (audio, video, and photos) GUANO-R
ArbimonII (DIY CNN tools) soundecology
  WarbleR
Physics Calculators WildCo Labs FaceBlur
Sound Propagation Calculator  
Sound Attenuation Calculator  
   

Large Dataset Tools

R Learn R
Download R CodeAcademy’s Free R Course
Editor – R Studio R for Ecology YouTube
   
Python Learn Python
Download Python freeCodeCamp
Editor – Spyder Data Camp
  Automate the Boring Stuff
Sharing Code  
GitHub Learn AI and ML
Learn- GitHub Skills DeepLearning.AI
   
Sharing Data Learn about FFT
Lila BC – Camera Trap Datasets Interactive Guide to the Fast Fourier Transformation
Silent Cities  
Zenodo  
   

 

Publicly-available Acoustic Monitoring Protocols

Provincial International
AB Handbook for Bats and Appendix 5 NABat Collect Data Site
BC RISC Standard for Bats (2022) UK-BCT Bat Good Practice Guide
QB- Inventaires acoustiques de chauves-souris US-FWS Indiana and Northern Long-eared Bat Survey Guide
   
Non-Profit Academia
ABMI Bioacoustic Unit Protocols Spotted and Barred Owl – Duchac et al. 2020
  AI and manual ID methods – Ware et al. 2023

 

More?

  • A/Vian Eco created data management tools can be found on our github under “Publications”.
  • See “Fun” for Citizen/Community Science Resources. 
  • Resources are a work-in progress that are updated periodically. Last Update 25OCT2024