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Sounding the Call for a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds
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Aquatic environments encompass the world’s most extensive habitats, rich with sounds produced by a diversity of animals. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is an increasingly accessible remote sensing technology that uses hydrophones to listen to the underwater world and represents an unprecedented, non-invasive method to monitor underwater environments. This information can assist in the delineation of biologically important areas via detection of sound-producing species or characterization of ecosystem type and condition, inferred from the acoustic properties of the local soundscape. At a time when worldwide biodiversity is in significant decline and underwater soundscapes are being altered as a result of anthropogenic impacts, there is a need to document, quantify, and understand biotic sound sources–potentially before they disappear. A significant step toward these goals is the development of a web-based, open-access platform that provides: (1) a reference library of known and unknown biological sound sources (by integrating and expanding existing libraries around the world); (2) a data repository portal for annotated and unannotated audio recordings of single sources and of soundscapes; (3) a training platform for artificial intelligence algorithms for signal detection and classification; and (4) a citizen science-based application for public users. Although individually, these resources are often met on regional and taxa-specific scales, many are not sustained and, collectively, an enduring global database with an integrated platform has not been realized. We discuss the benefits such a program can provide, previous calls for global data-sharing and reference libraries, and the challenges that need to be overcome to bring together bio- and ecoacousticians, bioinformaticians, propagation experts, web engineers, and signal processing specialists (e.g., artificial intelligence) with the necessary support and funding to build a sustainable and scalable platform that could address the needs of all contributors and stakeholders into the future.
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- Authors
- Parsons, M. J. G., Lin, T.-H., Mooney, T. A., Erbe, C., Juanes, F., Lammers, M., Li, S., Linke, S., Looby, A., Nedelec, S. L., Van Opzeeland, I., Radford, C., Rice, A. N., Sayigh, L., Stanley, J., Urban, E., & Di Iorio, L.
- Affiliations
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AU)
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica (TW)
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (US)
- Curtin University (AU)
- University of Victoria (CA)
- NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (US)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
- University of Florida (US)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Cornell University (US)
- Hampshire College (US)
- University of Waikato (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Parsons, Miles J. G.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2022-02-08
- Volume
- 10
- ISSN
- 2296-701X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4210893176
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 250
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 10
- FWCI
- 11.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community (Woods Hole Scientific Community) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (submittedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (OCE-1 840 868, 1840868)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Marine animal studies overview
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Underwater Acoustics Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Keywords
- underwater soundscape, passive acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, citizen science, biodiversity loss, ecosystem characterization, data sharing
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