Christof Zürn5d ago

Can you hear the difference between healthy soil and "low-life" soil? 🌍👂
Soil ecoacoustics allows us to do exactly that. In the latest episode of The Power of Music Thinking, I facilitate a fascinating conversation with Alex Flynn Taylor. Together, we deconstruct how his experience as a bassist for Stormy-Lou influences his work in restoration ecology at Flinders University.

👇 Link to the full episode
https://musicthinking.com/sounds-of-the-underground-soil.../
#MusicThinking #Ecoacoustics #Nature #Sustainability #ScienceAndArt

Clemens PitschkeFeb 9

It is realy great that this publication is open access.
Dig into underwater acoustics and up to date research on marine mammals.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-77022-7

#BioAcoustics #ecoacoustics #acoustics #nature #science #marinemammals

Marine Mammal Acoustics in a Noisy Ocean

This open-access book explores the potential impacts of noise on marine mammal species such as whales, dolphins, seals, seacows, and otters.

SpringerLink
Clemens PitschkeFeb 4
January has been quite busy for me, but the good kind of busy.
I am currently working on an application for a project with colleagues from Hamburg which gives me joy and excitement for my work I haven't had in a long time.
During the weekend I was looking into further resoruces on the topics of #ecoacoustics and #bioacoustics and thought I share this:
https://www.are.na/clemens-pitschke/bio-ecoacoustics-resources
On this note: can someone reccomend a course/ training regarding this fields or something related like landscape ecology?
Bio-/ Ecoacoustics resources | Are.na

Collection of current papers and resources on Bio- and Ecoacoustics

Are.na
Alba Márquez-RodríguezJun 19, 2025

We just updated our preprint "A Bird Song Detector for improving bird identification through Deep Learning: a case study from Doñana" to its last version 🐦🎶, which has been just accepted to Ecological Informatics

📍 Doñana National Park, Spain
📊 Passive Acoustic Monitoring
🤖 YOLOv8 + BirdNET

📄 Read it here 👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15576

#PAM #Ecoacoustics #DeepLearning #AIforEcology

A Bird Song Detector for improving bird identification through Deep Learning: a case study from Doñana

Passive Acoustic Monitoring is a key tool for biodiversity conservation, but the large volumes of unsupervised audio it generates present major challenges for extracting meaningful information. Deep Learning offers promising solutions. BirdNET, a widely used bird identification model, has shown success in many study systems but is limited at local scale due to biases in its training data, which focus on specific locations and target sounds rather than entire soundscapes. A key challenge in bird species identification is that many recordings either lack target species or contain overlapping vocalizations, complicating automatic identification. To address these problems, we developed a multi-stage pipeline for automatic bird vocalization identification in Doñana National Park (SW Spain), a wetland of high conservation concern. We deployed AudioMoth recorders in three main habitats across nine locations and manually annotated 461 minutes of audio, resulting in 3749 labeled segments spanning 34 classes. We first applied a Bird Song Detector to isolate bird vocalizations using spectrogram-based image processing. Then, species were classified using custom models trained at the local scale. Applying the Bird Song Detector before classification improved species identification, as all models performed better when analyzing only the segments where birds were detected. Specifically, the combination of detector and fine-tuned BirdNET outperformed the baseline without detection. This approach demonstrates the effectiveness of integrating a Bird Song Detector with local classification models. These findings highlight the need to adapt general-purpose tools to specific ecological challenges. Automatically detecting bird species helps track the health of this threatened ecosystem, given birds sensitivity to environmental change, and supports conservation planning to reduce biodiversity loss.

arXiv.org
Alba Márquez-RodríguezJun 10, 2025

Also, I just came back from the SIBECOL & AEET meeting in Pontevedra

I had the opportunity to present some advances from SEANIMALMOVE, showing how we’re applying ecoacoustics to both avian monitoring in terrestrial environments and marine mammal monitoring underwater

I kept some of the latest results for the upcoming manuscripts 😉 but the presentation was strong enough to win Best Predoc Oral Communication

#Ecoacoustics #Ecology #ScienceCommunication #SIBECOL #AEET #AIforConservation #BirdNET

Alba Márquez-RodríguezJun 10, 2025

🎉 After almost a year since the first submission, our manuscript has been accepted!

This is my first time as first author — it's been a challenging journey, but incredibly rewarding. I've learned so much that I’ll apply to future manuscripts and research projects

I hope the paper will be available very soon — stay tuned! 📄✨

(You have the previous version as preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15576)

#Research #Ecoacoustics #PAM #Ecology #AIforEcology #Manuscript

GeekooMay 26, 2025

New research shows snapdragons can “hear” bees and boost their nectar. The plant world just got louder. #PlantIntelligence #PollinationScience #EcoAcoustics

https://geekoo.news/the-secret-soundscape-of-flowers/

The Secret Soundscape of Flowers | Geekoo

Can flowers hear? New research reveals that buzzing bees trigger snapdragons to boost nectar quality — a stunning example of sound-driven plant behavior with real-world implications.

Geekoo
Wetland ProjectApr 22, 2025
Welcome to #WetlandProject listener in Kaunas, Lithuania. May the frogs be with you :) #wetlands #ecoacoustics #radioart #soundart #ClimateAction
Wetland ProjectApr 22, 2025
Dusk has fallen in Denmark. Wait for it! The frog chorus is about to explode in the #WetlandProject slow radio broadcast on The Lake Radio in Copenhagen. 🐸🐸🐸 #wetlands #ecoacoustics #radioart #soundart #ClimateAction
Wetland ProjectApr 22, 2025
Hello to #WetlandProject webstream listeners in Boston, New York City and Council Bluffs (Iowa)! Wishing you a lovely Earth Day afternoon 🙂 #wetlands #ecoacoustics #radioart #soundart #ClimateAction