A5063169047- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Forest Management and Policy
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Research Data Management Practices
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
2015-2025
Frederick University
2014-2025
Bridge University
2024
Prescott College
2023
Keystone Foundation
2023
United Nations
2023
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2023
Guangxi University
2017-2022
Trinity College Dublin
2022
Open University of Cyprus
2022
The increasing biodiversity loss worldwide has resulted in a growing need for cost-effective, efficient tools to monitor over large spatial and temporal scales. idea of using acoustic indices soniferous animal communities is becoming increasingly popular. Dozens have been proposed the last 15 years measure complexity as proxy biodiversity. However, we still lack sufficient evaluation indices' power predict biodiversity, factors modulating their efficacy. Here, extend recent meta-analysis on...
Abstract While habitat disturbance and food availability are major factors thought to determine the abundance of primates, evidence for their importance is uneven. We assessed effects these on three monkey species, guerezas ( Colobus guereza ) , blue monkeys Cercopithecus mitis redtails ascanius ), in four areas Kakamega Forest, Kenya. Group densities were higher where levels also higher. Food measured as basal area density trees did not correlate significantly with group any monkeys. The...
The analysis of audio recordings through acoustic indices has been proposed as an efficient way to measure and monitor biodiversity, given the assumption that higher levels biodiversity produce more rapidly-changing complex sound. However, in previous work south China, we have found only moderate correlations between bird species richness, when analyzing were made at same time conducting point counts birds. Here, extended three study regions Guangxi Province, making observations both inside...
The degradation of natural wetlands has significant effects on the ecosystem services they provide and biodiversity sustain. Under certain conditions, these negative can be mitigated by presence artificial wetlands. However, conservation value needs to explored further. In addition, it is unclear how anthropogenic variables, such as road networks hunting reserves (i.e., areas where birds prohibited) affect in both Here, we use data from thirteen six Cyprus, assess their similarities bird...
<title>Abstract</title> Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and non-invasive monitoring techniques that are able to gather large amounts of information cost-effectively at scales. One such technique passive acoustic monitoring, which commonly coupled with automatic identification animal species based on their sound. Automated sound analyses usually require training detection algorithms. These algorithms annotated datasets mark occurrence sounds...
There is growing interest in using novel technologies for large-scale biodiversity monitoring. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) represents a promising approach surveying vocalizing animals. However, further development of PAM methods needed to improve their accuracy. The availability extensive ecoacoustic datasets from biodiverse areas can facilitate this development. In study, we present large dataset (1.58 TB) collected at sixty-one study sites on the island Cyprus between March and May...
An emerging method of monitoring biodiversity is through the use audio recordings, often made by autonomous recording units. Acoustic indices have been developed to estimate animal diversity, especially across human disturbance gradients, and shown correlate with manual counts animals. Less work has examined whether acoustic can detect finer-scale habitat such as differences in vegetation within mature forests, using long-term plots. We used recorders capture sound predominantly produced...
Biodiversity loss is a global concern. Current technological advances allow the development of novel tools that can monitor biodiversity remotely with minimal disturbance. One example passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), which involves recording soundscape an area using autonomous units, and processing these data indices, for example, to estimate diversity various vocal animal groups. We explored hypothesis obtained through PAM could also be used study ecosystem functions. Specifically, we...
Human activities have accelerated biodiversity loss, necessitating tools capable of monitoring patterns over large spatial and temporal scales. Passive acoustic methods, including indices, been proposed as a promising approach for surveying vocalising animals such birds. Numerous studies assessed the effectiveness indices in animal communities. Most focused on birds seven commonly used yielding mixed results. Combining has to produce more accurate predictions. In this study, we use data from...
Conservation biology is increasingly concerned with preserving interactions among species such as mutualisms in landscapes facing anthropogenic change. We investigated how one kind of mutualism, mixed-species bird flocks, influences the way which birds respond to different habitat types varying land-use intensity. use data from a well-replicated, large-scale study Sri Lanka and Western Ghats India, flocks were observed inside forest reserves, 'buffer zones' degraded or timber plantations,...
Abstract Avian mixed-species flocks (MSFs) are an important example of species interactions threatened by the biodiversity crisis. They found throughout world in forested habitats but generally reduced size or frequency human disturbance. In southern China, a unique MSF system is led several closely- related fulvettas (Alcippe morrisonia, A. hueti, and davidi). Our objective was to understand how this distributed across elevational gradients, especially moving west into Hengduan Mountains,...
Abstract Understory avian insectivores are especially sensitive to deforestation, although regional differences in how these species respond human disturbance may be linked varying land-use histories. South Asia experienced widespread conversion of forest agriculture the nineteenth century, providing a comparison tropical areas deforested more recently. In Sri Lanka and Western Ghats India, we compared understory other guilds with different vertical strata preferences, both inside...