Acoustic localization of terrestrial wildlife: Current practices and future opportunities.

ABSTRACT: Autonomous acoustic recorders are an increasingly popular method for low-disturbance, large-scale monitoring of sound-producing animals, such as birds, anurans, bats, and other mammals. A specialized use of autonomous recording units (ARUs) is acoustic localization, in which a vocalizing animal is located spatially, usually by quantifying the time delay of arrival of its sound at an array of time-synchronized microphones. To describe trends in the literature, identify considerations for field biologists who wish to use these systems, and suggest advancements that will improve the field of acoustic localization, we comprehensively review published applications of wildlife localization in terrestrial environments. We describe the wide variety of methods used to complete the five steps of aco

SUBMITTER: Rhinehart TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7381569 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature