The document discusses the challenges of ecoacoustics which it groups into three categories: scope, scale, and speed. For scope, it lists identifying various levels of acoustic information from taxonomic groups to individual animals and their behaviors. For scale, it discusses expanding monitoring to larger areas with more sensors and integrating projects into an infrastructure. For speed, it notes real-time identification is not always needed but could help with issues like poaching, biosecurity, and timber monitoring beyond airborne sounds.

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Ecoacoustic Challenges
Ed Baker – University of York & Natural History Museum

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SCOPE
SCALE
SPEED

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SCOPE
Acoustic indices
Taxonomic group (e.g. birds)
Species within taxonomic group (e.g. Atlantic puffin)
Number of individuals of species
What species are doing
Identify individuals
Identify individuals and what they are doing
+ CONTEXT
(abiotic sensors)

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SCALE
Various ways to think about this:
More sensors, higher density, bigger area
Research projects to a research infrastructure
(Integration)
Heterogeneity

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SPEED
Real time is not always necessary or desirable
But:
Poaching
Biosecurity
Timber (going beyond airborne)