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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels

Sophie Bennett, Lucy Williamson, Miguel Hernández-González, Tom Denton, Rob Laber, Zoe Deakin, Mark Bolton, Ethan Manilow, Linda J Wilson

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9 authors.

Sophie BennettRSPB Centre for Conservation Science The Lodge Bedfordshire UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7351-5051
Lucy WilliamsonRSPB Centre for Conservation Science The Lodge Bedfordshire UK.
Miguel Hernández-GonzálezRSPB Centre for Conservation Science The Lodge Bedfordshire UK.
Tom DentonGoogle LLC San Francisco USA.
Rob LaberGoogle LLC San Francisco USA.
Zoe DeakinRSPB Centre for Conservation Science The Lodge Bedfordshire UK.
Mark BoltonRSPB Centre for Conservation Science The Lodge Bedfordshire UK.
Ethan ManilowGoogle LLC San Francisco USA.
Linda J WilsonRSPB Centre for Conservation Science The Lodge Bedfordshire UK.

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Abstract

Obtaining measures of population size and fitness are key first steps to understanding how and why species' populations change over time. Quantifying such metrics is difficult in some species, however, due to their remote location and/or ecology, that is they may be widely dispersed or may not be readily monitored visually. As such, bioacoustic monitoring is increasingly used to monitor populations of such species, as in burrow-nesting seabirds. However, while a growing number of studies successfully obtain measures of population size using bioacoustics, there are few that effectively quantify measures of population fitness, limiting the conservation value of this tool. Here, we investigated whether bioacoustics could yield indices of population size and a key population fitness measure, breeding success, comparable to those derived from observer-based methods in a breeding population of a burrow-nesting seabird, the European Storm Petrel,

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population densityProcellariiformesproductivityremote monitoringremote sensing

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PMCPMC12336414

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