• Snowmobile noise alters bird vocalization patterns during winter and pre-breeding season 

      Cretois, Benjamin; Bick, Ian Avery; Balantic, Cathleen; Gelderblom, Femke Berre; Pavòn-Jordàn, Diego; Wiel, Julia; Sethi, Sarab Singh; Betchkal, David H.; Banet, Ben; Rosten, Carolyn; Reinen, Tor Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Noise pollution poses a significant threat to ecosystems worldwide, disrupting animal communication and causing cascading effects on biodiversity. In this study, we focus on the impact of snowmobile noise on avian vocalizations ...
    • Soundscapes predict species occurrence in tropical forests 

      Sethi, Sarab Singh; Ewers, Robert M.; Jones, Nick S.; Sleutel, Jani; Shabrani, Adi; Zulkifli, Nursyamin; Picinali, Lorenzo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Accurate occurrence data is necessary for the conservation of keystone or endangered species, but acquiring it is usually slow, laborious and costly. Automated acoustic monitoring offers a scalable alternative to manual ...
    • Voice activity detection in eco-acoustic data enables privacy protection and is a proxy for human disturbance 

      Cretois, Benjamin; Rosten, Carolyn; Sethi, Sarab Singh (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      1. Eco-acoustic monitoring is increasingly being used to map biodiversity across large scales, yet little thought is given to the privacy concerns and potential scientific value of inadvertently recorded human speech. ...