Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring

R Van Klink, T August, Y Bas, P Bodesheim… - Trends in ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, but their small size and high diversity
have always made them challenging to study. Recent technological advances have the …

Acoustic indices as proxies for biodiversity: a meta‐analysis

I Alcocer, H Lima, LSM Sugai, D Llusia - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As biodiversity decreases worldwide, the development of effective techniques to track
changes in ecological communities becomes an urgent challenge. Together with other …

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

M Besson, J Alison, K Bjerge, TE Gorochowski… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution monitoring is fundamental to understand ecosystems dynamics in an era of
global change and biodiversity declines. While real‐time and automated monitoring of …

A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

WF Frick, T Kingston, J Flanders - … of the new York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bats are an ecologically and taxonomically diverse group accounting for roughly a fifth of
mammalian diversity worldwide. Many of the threats bats face (eg, habitat loss, bushmeat …

Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions

SRPJ Ross, DP O'Connell, JL Deichmann… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has emerged as a transformative tool for applied
ecology, conservation and biodiversity monitoring, but its potential contribution to …

Standards and best practices for monitoring and benchmarking insects

GA Montgomery, MW Belitz, RP Guralnick… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Benchmark studies of insect populations are increasingly relevant and needed amid
accelerating concern about insect trends in the Anthropocene. The growing recognition that …

Data integration for large-scale models of species distributions

NJB Isaac, MA Jarzyna, P Keil, LI Dambly… - Trends in ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
With the expansion in the quantity and types of biodiversity data being collected, there is a
need to find ways to combine these different sources to provide cohesive summaries of …

Climate-driven shifts in marine species ranges: scaling from organisms to communities

ML Pinsky, RL Selden, ZJ Kitchel - Annual review of marine …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The geographic distributions of marine species are changing rapidly, with leading range
edges following climate poleward, deeper, and in other directions and trailing range edges …

Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution

MG Bertram, JM Martin, ES McCallum… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Animal behaviour is remarkably sensitive to disruption by chemical pollution, with
widespread implications for ecological and evolutionary processes in contaminated wildlife …

Guidelines for the use of acoustic indices in environmental research

T Bradfer‐Lawrence, N Gardner… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ecoacoustics, the study of environmental sound, is a growing field with great potential for
biodiversity monitoring. Audio recordings could provide a rapid, cost‐effective monitoring …