A5103194860- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Marine animal studies overview
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
- Noise Effects and Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Climate change and permafrost
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Seismic Waves and Analysis
- Music and Audio Processing
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
Queensland University of Technology
2014-2024
Deadwood is a large global carbon store with its size partially determined by biotic decay. Microbial wood decay rates are known to respond changing temperature and precipitation. Termites also important decomposers in the tropics but less well studied. An understanding of their climate sensitivities needed estimate change effects on pools. Using data from 133 sites spanning six continents, we found that termite discovery consumption were highly sensitive (with increasing >6.8 times per 10°C...
Abstract Fauna surveys are traditionally manual, and hence limited in scale, expensive labour‐intensive. Low‐cost hardware storage mean that acoustic recording now has the potential to efficiently build scale terrestrial fauna surveys, both spatially temporally. With this aim, we have constructed Australian Acoustic Observatory. It provides a direct permanent record of soundscapes through continuous across ecoregions, including those periodically subject fire flood, when manual dangerous or...
Climate change and biodiversity loss are significant global environmental issues. However, to understand their impacts we need know how fauna respond climatic variation over time. In this study, remote sensing techniques (satellite imagery passive acoustic recorders) were used investigate the in biophony different timescales, ranging from one day year, a sub-tropical woodland eastern Australia. The prominent sources of birds at dawn during day, nocturnal insects dusk night, diurnal (mainly...
High rates of biodiversity loss caused by human-induced changes in the environment require new methods for large scale fauna monitoring and data analysis. While ecoacoustic is increasingly being used shows promise, analysis interpretation big produced remains a challenge. Computer-generated acoustic indices potentially provide biologically meaningful summary sound, however, temporal autocorrelation, difficulties statistical multi-index lack consistency or transferability different...
Abstract Soundscapes can provide information about a wide range of habitats and species through the recording vocalisations over long temporal scales. Because large volumes data collected, computational approaches, such as application acoustic indices, are required to extract useful from long‐duration recordings. Acoustic indices summarise various soundscape features into frequency ranges defined time intervals aid in visual exploration, detection, analysis vocalisation patterns. Here, we...
Five new species within the Australian carnivorous marsupial genus Antechinus have recently been named, at least two of which are threatened. Important facets habitat use and extinction risk one these species, buff-footed antechinus, A. mysticus, not well understood. Previous research has suggested that utilizes a broad range inter-connected forest habitats in southeast Queensland (Qld), Australia. Based on this potentially connected habitat, we predicted mysticus should low population...
Abstract Passive acoustic recorders have emerged as powerful tools for ecological monitoring. However, effective monitoring is not simply an act of recording sounds. To meaning conservation and management, needs to be properly planned analyzed yield high quality information. Here, we provide a set considerations the design program. We argue that such program, has following attributes: (1) established appropriate partnerships with landowners, Traditional Owners, researchers, or other relevant...
Abstract Animals, such as termites, have largely been overlooked global-scale drivers of biogeochemical cycles 1,2 , despite site-specific findings 3,4 . Deadwood turnover, an important component the carbon cycle, is driven by multiple decay agents. Studies focused on temperate systems 5,6 where microbes dominate 7 Microbial sensitive to temperature, typically doubling per 10°C increase (decay effective Q 10 = ~2) 8–10 Termites are decayers in tropical 3,11–13 and differ from their...