Bioacoustics for species management: two case studies with a Hawaiian forest bird.

ABSTRACT: The management of animal endangered species requires detailed information on their distribution and abundance, which is often hard to obtain. When animals communicate using sounds, one option is to use automatic sound recorders to gather information on the species for long periods of time with low effort. One drawback of this method is that processing all the information manually requires large amounts of time and effort. Our objective was to create a relatively "user-friendly" (i.e., that does not require big programming skills) automatic detection algorithm to improve our ability to get basic data from sound-emitting animal species. We illustrate our algorithm by showing two possible applications with the Hawai'i 'Amakihi, Hemignathus virens virens, a forest bird from the island of Hawai

SUBMITTER: Sebastian-Gonzalez E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4670053 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature