Daintree Rainforest Acoustic Recordings with Temperature and Sound Pressure Data

Featuring acoustic recordings from the Daintree Rainforest SuperSite in Cape Tribulation, Australia, collected for 12 hours daily around dawn and dusk. The sensor also recorded temperature, minimum, maximum, and mean sound pressure levels. Long-term spectrograms, acoustic indices, and false color spectrograms have been generated to aid analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyze acoustic indices to characterize the soundscape and identify specific sound sources like birds or insects.
• Monitor temporal trends in temperature and sound pressure levels to track environmental changes in the rainforest.
• Use false color spectrograms to navigate long-term recordings and highlight the presence of specific fauna or weather events.
• Assess fauna biodiversity by analyzing the distribution of acoustic energy in dawn and dusk recordings.

Strengths

• Recordings target 12 hours per day, split between dawn and dusk periods to capture key biological activity.
• Site hosts more than 80 species, including canopy trees from several botanical families.
• Data includes derived products like acoustic indices and false color spectrograms for analysis.

Limitations

• The exact number of audio files, recording duration, and total data size are not specified.
• Data format includes HTML and PNG, which may require specialized tools for processing raw audio if not provided.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single observatory site in the Daintree Rainforest.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Acoustic recorder set up in 2012, collecting audio data on a scheduled basis.

Time Range

Recordings began in 2012; specific end date not provided.

Freshness

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Geography

Daintree Rainforest Observatory, Cape Tribulation, Australia.