QTFN Aroona Station Acoustic Data Collection: Australian Wildlife Recordings

Four acoustic recorders continuously captured environmental audio at a 2,000-hectare conservation property in Queensland, Australia, starting in 2020. The Queensland Trust for Nature, QUT, and TERN established this site in 2025 with co-investment from the Queensland Government. Recorders were strategically placed in both wet and dry habitats within the Little Liverpool Range wildlife corridor.

Use Cases

• Train automated species recognition models based on continuous environmental audio recordings.
• Analyze habitat usage patterns based on audio data from paired wet and dry sites.
• Study long-term ecological changes in a working cattle property managed for conservation.
• Benchmark acoustic biodiversity metrics for the Little Liverpool Range wildlife corridor.

Strengths

• Audio collection began in 2020, providing a multi-year time series.
• Recorders were placed in two distinct habitat types (wet and dry) for comparative analysis.
• Site is a 2,000-hectare property with diverse native vegetation, supporting varied wildlife.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single site in Queensland.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Continuous audio recording via four acoustic recorders as part of the Australian Acoustic Observatory (A2O) project.

Time Range

Collection began in 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 18:19:59.806219; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Aroona Station, Little Liverpool Range, Yugara Country, 55 km south-west of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.