Long-Term Acoustic Recordings from Boyagin Wandoo Woodland

Comprising long-term environmental audio recordings from the Boyagin Wandoo Woodland SuperSite, established in 2017. Recordings were collected starting in 2018 for 12 hours per day, split between dawn and dusk periods to capture bird choruses. The data includes audio files and generated long-term spectrograms for analysis.

Use Cases

• Identify sound sources of interest within the 12-hour daily recording schedule to monitor fauna biodiversity.
• Characterize the soundscape using long-term spectrograms generated for each audio file to track environmental changes.
• Analyze temporal trends in morning and evening bird choruses captured during the dawn and dusk recording periods.
• Assess fauna biodiversity by monitoring acoustic activity within the core 1-hectare Wandoo woodland plot.

Strengths

• Recordings are collected for 12 hours per day, specifically targeting six hours around dawn and six hours around dusk.
• Data collection began in 2018 at a site established in 2017, providing a multi-year temporal perspective.
• Includes generated long-term spectrograms for each audio file to aid in data exploration.

Limitations

• The dataset size, number of files, and specific recording dates beyond 2018 are not specified.
• Data is provided in HTML and PNG formats, which may require conversion or specialized tools for acoustic analysis compared to raw audio formats.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single 1-hectare core plot within the Boyagin Nature Reserve.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Audio data collected via an acoustic recorder set up at the site, with a schedule of 12 hours per day split between dawn and dusk.

Time Range

Site established in 2017, acoustic data collection began in 2018.

Freshness

Last metadata update was 2026-03-20, but the underlying data collection period is not fully specified.

Geography

Boyagin Nature Reserve, Wandoo woodland, core 1-hectare plot in dense eucalypt woodland.