The popularity of bioacoustics for threatened species monitoring has surged. Large volumes
of acoustic data can be collected autonomously and remotely with minimal human effort. The …

Animals produce a wide array of sounds with highly variable acoustic structures. It is
possible to understand the causes and consequences of this variation across taxa with …

Animal acoustic communication is one of the most fruitful research areas in behavioural and
evolutionary biology. Work in this area depends largely on quantifying the structure of …

Animals modify acoustic communication signals in response to noise pollution, but
consequences of these modifications are unknown. Vocalizations that transmit best in noise …

Highlights•Understanding sound production mechanisms can enhance investigation of
performance.•Performance ranges of temporal and spectral features vary with production …

The analysis of natural and animal sound makes a demonstrable contribution to important
challenges in conservation, animal behaviour, and evolution. And now bioacoustics has …

Communication needs to be complex enough to be functional while minimizing learning and
production costs. Recent work suggests that the vocalizations and gestures of some …

The study of animal acoustic signals is a central tool for many fields in ecology and
evolution, but the diversity of analytical methods and sources of animal sound recordings …

In songbirds, singing with precision (vocal consistency) has been proposed to reflect whole-
organism performance. Vocal consistency is measured using spectrogram cross correlation …

Song production across many songbird species is shaped by largely conserved sets of
constraints associated with song control, production, and perception. This chapter …