New Web-enabled technology records the presence of species by analyzing their sounds
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
Identifying, and monitoring the fluctuations of thousands of species in tropical ecosystems is a difficult challenge, but newly developed technology now makes it much easier. Scientists report on new cyberinfrastructure which enables real-time acoustic recording and subsequent species identification in remote locations around the world. Thousands of audio recordings of tropical birds, frogs, monkeys, and insects in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica have been captured (using automated stations) and analyzed to identify the species concerned.