The use of automated bioacoustic recorders to replace human wildlife surveys: An example using nightjars

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Zwart, Mieke C ^a   Baker, Andrew ^b   McGowan, Philip J K ^a   Whittingham, Mark J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Baker Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED BIOACOUSTIC RECORDER; AUTOMATION; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NIGHTJAR; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAPE RECORDER; VOCALIZATION; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENGLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84904347364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102770     Document Type: Article

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