It’s Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Now I've heard everything The acoustic revolution in wildlife monitoring Dan Farr Erin Bayne Monica Kohler Shawn Morrison It’s Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
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It’s Our Nature to KnowAlberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Now I've heard everything
The acoustic revolution in
wildlife monitoring
Dan FarrErin BayneMonica KohlerShawn Morrison
It’s Our Nature to KnowAlberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
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Dan vs Machine
Species: Good match: 80%Abundance: Good match in 3 categories (0, 1, >1)
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Dan vs Machine
Species: Good match: 80%Abundance: Good match in 3 categories (0, 1, >1)
Caveat: Unidirectional microphone
1990 2000 2010
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2007Better microphones
OmnidirectionalDigital recorders
1990 2000 2010
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Audio file transcription
2007-201410,000 recordings
10 min each100,000 minutes
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2007-2014
263 species167,000 records
1077 sites across Alberta
1990 2000 2010
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www.species.abmi.ca
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Application
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SecretiveCall at nightSoggy feet
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ARU
Automated recording unitsPortableDurable
Programmable
ARU
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Automated recording units
JUST SET IT AND FORGET IT
ARU
LowerAthabasca
Edmonton
Calgary
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Erin Bayne
University of Alberta
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2013-2014
> 200 sitesup to 5 ARUs per site
10 minutes hourly5 – 100 days per site
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Audio file transcription?
2013-201410X more recordings than previous 8 yr
> 1 million minutes
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2013-201410X more recordings than previous 8 yr
> 1 million minutes
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Contact call Alarm call
Song
Spectrogram – a picture of sound
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Yellow Rail
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Yellow Rail
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Alberta Yellow Rail records
2013-2014
1767 sample locationsYellow Rails at 5%
2/3 manual1/3 computer-assisted
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Yellow Rail Habitat
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Key questionsPopulation size
Population trendsResponse to development
Alberta range?
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2015Lower Athabasca
Long-term monitoringCause-effect research
Basic biology
2015Alberta Boreal
70 sites4 ARUs per site
March - June
0
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
0.3
0.35
0.4
BC
FRW
OFR
WIS
NC
OLO
LCSP
RN
GR
CO
NI
BC
CH
GH
OW
RU
GR
SOR
AW
ETO
BA
DO
TUSW
MA
LLN
SWO
WTS
PSP
SAC
AN
GA
LFL
GW
TEA
MC
OC
OR
AC
HSP
LEYE
SAC
RR
ND
UC
ATO
BO
OW
PB
GR
LISP
YRW
AC
OYT
STSP
SWSP
CC
SPG
RYE
KIL
LM
AW
RA
MW
ILE
OW
RC
KI
DEJ
UFR
GU
CO
NW
AM
RO
OV
ENB
EAV
WO
LFP
IWO
GG
OW
SOSA
BW
TEO
CW
ATE
WA
PA
WA
LEFL
RES
QLE
SCSN
GO
NES
PW
WC
REA
PH
SEW
RYB
SAFO
TER
BG
UG
AD
WG
BH
EA
TTW
MA
WA
WTD
EYE
RA
BH
VI
BLJ
AB
LTE
BO
CH
BB
MA
BO
GU
BW
HA
SWTH
WET
AN
OFL
WA
VI
CO
GO
RB
GR
NLF
RC
OYE
MA
GO
NO
WA
NO
HA
GW
FGW
ILL
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E. Bayne, in prep.
1076 recordings10 min each
All at midnight
93 species
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30 second clip
Logan McLeodUniversity of Alberta
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Ecological recoveryof reclaimed wellsites
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ARU ArraysTriangulate to locate individuals
Scott WilsonUniversity of Alberta
± 13 m
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ARU ArraysTriangulate to locate individuals
Scott WilsonUniversity of Alberta
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Computer recognition
1990 2000 2010 2020
ARU
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Citizen science
1990 2000 2010 2020
ARU
Bioacoustic Unit
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Dan Farr
Application Director
Erin Bayne
Scientific Director
Monica Kohler
Communications
Shawn Morrison
Senior Research Associate
Hedwig Lankau
Research Coordinator
Jim Schieck
Monitoring Director
Audio Technicans
Alex Macphail
Nicole Boucher
Michelle Knaggs
Cassandra Hardy
Graduate Students
Logan McLeod
Scott Wilson
Natasha Annich
Daniel Yip
Julia Shonfield
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Sponsors
Images & mediaAlberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Cornell Lab of OrnithologyIntegration & Application Network,