What does ‘occupancy’ mean in passive acoustic surveys?

Occupancy modelling is an increasingly common framework for analysing acoustic data to study the variation in populations through space and time, but different survey designs endow survey locations with varying degrees of biological meaning. Recording units may be preferentially deployed in areas kn...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ibis (London, England) Jg. 164; H. 4; S. 1295 - 1300
Hauptverfasser: Wood, Connor M., Peery, M. Zachariah
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2022
Schlagworte:
Acoustic data
Acoustic surveying
Acoustics
area of occupancy
Colonization
conception
Design parameters
Echo surveys
Ecological effects
Endangered species
experimental design
extent of occurrence
extinction
occupancy modelling
passive acoustic monitoring
permanent presence
Polls & surveys
Population studies
Random sampling
Rare species
Recording
space and time
Statistical sampling
Surveys
transient use
Vocalization
Vocalization behavior
ISSN:0019-1019, 1474-919X
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Zusammenfassung:Occupancy modelling is an increasingly common framework for analysing acoustic data to study the variation in populations through space and time, but different survey designs endow survey locations with varying degrees of biological meaning. Recording units may be preferentially deployed in areas known to be important to a species, which implies an ‘area of occupancy’ conception of a species range, or recording units may be randomly deployed without knowledge of focal species space‐use (e.g. a survey grid), which implies an ‘extent of occurrence’ conception of a species range. Preferential sampling requires substantial pre‐survey information (e.g. the location of focal species territories) but leads to intuitive parameter interpretation and greater precision; vastly greater survey coverage is attainable with random sampling, but the resulting data merit careful post‐processing to achieve precise, ecologically meaningful results. Importantly, occupancy, detection, extinction and colonization estimates are incomparable between study designs. However, an understanding of focal species movement and vocal behaviour can inform the development of creative definitions of acoustic detections – and thus site occupancy – which may help bring the ecological realism of preferential sampling to the data yielded by the more scalable random sampling approach. Understanding the implications of study design choices on parameter interpretation is a fundamental aspect of basic ecological inference and endangered species monitoring.
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ISSN:0019-1019
1474-919X
DOI:10.1111/ibi.13092