Passive acoustic monitoring can provide insights into occupancy dynamics and impacts of disturbance for at-risk species.

ABSTRACT: Climate and land-use change are dramatically altering the frequency, intensity, and extent of ecological disturbances, which threaten the persistence of at-risk species. To curb the pace and scale of disturbances, balance management and conservation priorities, and alleviate associated population declines, managers require high-quality information on species' responses to disturbance and their population trends across broad spatial scales that challenge the capacity of traditional, local-scale monitoring programs. Passive acoustic monitoring is a scalable approach to obtain occurrence data, but the extent to which it can be used to model occupancy dynamics and their environmental drivers remains uncertain. Here, we demonstrate how passive acoustic surveys can be analyzed within a Bayesian

SUBMITTER: Winiarski JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12808558 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature