ReviewRoyal Society open science2020
Listening forward: approaching marine biodiversity assessments using acoustic methods.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Software Tools for Passive Acoustic Monitoring in Aquatic and Terrestrial Bio- and Ecoacoustics: A Living Systematic Review.F1000Research · 2026Pooled it
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- Listening to tuna: Acoustic characterization of captive juvenile yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares).Journal of fish biology · 2026Article
- Leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance marine biosecurity.Bioscience · 2026Review
- Multi-class, unsupervised detection and classification of biological and anthropogenic sounds in coral reefs.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) to assess benthic communities associated with offshore wind farms: insights and future directions.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Article
- An open-access dataset of odontocete acoustic signals from the Madeira archipelago.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Diel and tidal rhythms drive fish acoustic communities in a European kelp forest.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Passive acoustic monitoring of sound characteristics and vocalization patterns of the brown croaker.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Burrunan babble: acoustic characterization of the whistles and burst-pulse sounds of a critically endangered dolphin.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Highlighting the resilience potential of marine protected areas in the face of coral bleaching with passive acoustic monitoring.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Using tropical reef, bird and unrelated sounds for superior transfer learning in marine bioacoustics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Unlocking the soundscape of coral reefs with artificial intelligence: pretrained networks and unsupervised learning win out.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Visualization and quantification of coral reef soundscapes using CoralSoundExplorer software.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- The biological soundscape of temperate reefs in the Wadden sea.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Soundscape and fish passive acoustic monitoring around a North Sea gas-production platform in the Dogger Bank.PloS one · 2025Article
- Distribution and Seasonality of the Omura's Whale (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Characterizing offshore polar ocean soundscapes using ecoacoustic intensity and diversity metrics.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Invertebrate sounds from photic to mesophotic coral reefs reveal vertical stratification and diel diversity.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Animal-borne soundscape logger as a system for edge classification of sound sources and data transmission for monitoring near-real-time underwater soundscape.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ecosystems and the communities they support are changing at alarmingly rapid rates. Tracking species diversity is vital to managing these stressed habitats. Yet, quantifying and monitoring biodiversity is often challenging, especially in ocean habitats. Given that many animals make sounds, these cues travel efficiently under water, and emerging technologies are increasingly cost-effective, passive acoustics (a long-standing ocean observation method) is now a potential means of quantifying and monitoring marine biodiversity. Properly applying acoustics for biodiversity assessments is vital. Our goal here is to provide a timely consideration of emerging methods using passive acoustics to measure marine biodiversity. We provide a summary of the brief history of using passive acoustics to assess marine biodiversity and community structure, a critical assessment of the challenges faced, and outline recommended practices and considerations for acoustic biodiversity measurements. We focused on temperate and tropical seas, where much of the acoustic biodiversity work has been conducted. Overall, we suggest a cautious approach to applying current acoustic indices to assess marine biodiversity. Key needs are preliminary data and sampling sufficiently to capture the patterns and variability of a habitat. Yet with new analytical tools including source separation and supervised machine learning, there is substantial promise in marine acoustic diversity assessment methods.
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