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Monitor: Automation Tools For Landscape-Scale Acoustic Monitoring, Jonathan Edward Katz
Monitor: Automation Tools For Landscape-Scale Acoustic Monitoring, Jonathan Edward Katz
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Climate change coupled with land-use change will likely alter habitats and affect state parameters of the animal populations that dwell in them. Affected parameters are anticipated to include site occupancy and abundance, population range, and phenophase cycles (e.g., arrival dates on breeding grounds for migrant bird species). Detecting these changes will require monitoring many sites for many years, a process that is well suited for an automated system. We developed and tested monitoR, an R package that is designed for long-term, multi-taxa automated passive acoustic monitoring programs. monitoR correctly identified presence for black-throated green warbler and ovenbird in 64% and …