ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025
Acoustic monitoring for tropical insect conservation.
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- A finely annotated dataset for the automated acoustic identification of European Orthoptera and Cicadidae.Scientific data · 2026Article
- A dataset of insect sounds from 459 species for bioacoustic machine learning.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Sensing nature in the city: The role of sight and sound in restorative tropical urban green spaces.PloS one · 2026Article
- Advancing insect monitoring: analysis of mel-frequency cepstral coefficients from optical signals for body orientation estimation.Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics · 2026Article
- Exploring nocturnal soundscapes in an Australian open forest system using acoustic indices.PloS one · 2026Article
- Spatial and temporal variation in vibroscape composition in two grassland habitats.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Acoustic monitoring for tropical insect conservation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Tuning into nature: the sonic boost transforming tropical biodiversity research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Changes in wing resonance in dried preserved crickets.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Monitoring the species-specific sounds produced by insects could provide us with a rapid, reliable, non-invasive measure of tropical ecosystem health and biodiversity. Although acoustic biodiversity monitoring has made rapid progress over the past decade, the focus has been mostly on vertebrates, even though insects far outnumber them and tropical soundscapes are dominated by insect sounds. Here, we provide an overview of song features for the major sound-producing insect groups, identify technological milestones and describe impediments for analysing tropical soundscapes and insect communities. We review some promising best practices using singing insects for non-invasive acoustic profiling and tracking of diversity in rainforest ecosystems under threat. We suggest a roadmap to support insect conservation by integrating passive acoustic monitoring within monitoring networks and environmental certification schemes. Artificial intelligence could help to analyse the wealth of existing data, but requires efficient curation of sound repositories, including emerging citizen science projects.This article is part of the theme issue 'Acoustic monitoring for tropical ecology and conservation'.
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