Bioacoustics
Bioacoustics for monitoring northern spotted owls
Northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) are federally listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and have been at the forefront of forest management and conservation policy in the Pacific Northwest for decades. Recently, monitoring of northern spotted owls transitioned from mark-resight surveys to a passive acoustic monitoring framework using autonomous recording units (ARUs) to detect owls by their vocalizations.
This work is supported by the Pacific Northwest Bioacoustics Lab at the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station.
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References
2023
- EcoIndLong-term monitoring in transition: Resolving spatial mismatch and integrating multistate occupancy dataEcological Indicators, 2023
2021
- EcolIndWorkflow and convolutional neural network for automated identification of animal soundsEcological Indicators, 2021
- USFSSimulating the effort necessary to detect changes in northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) populations using passive acoustic monitoring2021