Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms

• Author(s): Darras, Kevin F. A. ; Rountree, Rodney A. ; Van Wilgenburg, Steven L. ; Cord, Anna F. ; Pitz, Frederik ; Chen, Youfang ; Dong, Lijun ; Rocquencourt, Agnès ; Desjonquères, Camille ; Diaz, Patrick Mauritz ; Lin, Tzu‐Hao ; Turco, Théophile ; Emmerson, Louise ; Bradfer‐Lawrence, Tom ; Gasc, Amandine ; Marley, Sarah ; Salton, Marcus ; Schillé, Laura ; Wensveen, Paul J. ; Wu, Shih‐Hung ; Acero‐Murcia, Adriana C. ; Acevedo‐Charry, Orlando ; Adam, Matyáš ; Aguzzi, Jacopo ; Akoglu, Irmak ; Amorim, M. Clara P. ; Anders, Mina ; André, Michel ; Antonelli, Alexandre ; Do Nascimento, Leandro Aparecido ; Appel, Giulliana ; Archer, Stephanie ; Astaras, Christos ; Atemasov, Andrey ; Atkinson, Jamieson ; Attia, Joël ; Baltag, Emanuel ; Barbaro, Luc ; Basan, Fritjof ; Batist, Carly ; Baumgarten, Julio Ernesto ; Bayle Sempere, Just T. ; Bellisario, Kristen ; David, Asaf Ben ; Berger‐Tal, Oded ; Bertucci, Frédéric ; Betts, Matthew G. ; Bhalla, Iqbal S. ; Bicudo, Thiago ; Bolgan, Marta ; Bombaci, Sara ; Bota, Gerard ; Boullhesen, Martin ; Briers, Robert A. ; Buchan, Susannah ; Budka, Michal ; Burchard, Katie ; Buscaino, Giuseppa ; Calvente, Alice ; Campos‐Cerqueira, Marconi ; Gonçalves, Maria Isabel Carvalho ; Ceraulo, Maria ; Cerezo‐Araujo, Maite ; Cerwén, Gunnar ; Chaskda, Adams A. ; Chistopolova, Maria ; Clark, Christopher W. ; Cox, Kieran D. ; Cretois, Benjamin ; Czarnecki, Chapin ; da Silva, Luis P. ; da Silva, Wigna ; De Clippele, Laurence H. ; de la Haye, David ; de Oliveira Tissiani, Ana Silvia ; de Zwaan, Devin ; Degano, M. Eugenia ; Deichmann, Jessica ; del Rio, Joaquin ; Devenish, Christian ; Díaz‐Delgado, Ricardo ; Diniz, Pedro ; Oliveira‐Júnior, Dorgival Diógenes ; Dorigo, Thiago ; Dröge, Saskia ; Duarte, Marina ; Duarte, Adam ; Dunleavy, Kerry ; Dziak, Robert ; Elise, Simon ; Enari, Hiroto ; Enari, Haruka S. ; Erbs, Florence ; Eriksson, Britas Klemens ; Ertör‐Akyazi, Pınar ; Ferrari, Nina C. ; Ferreira, Luane ; Fleishman, Abram B. ; Fonseca, Paulo ; Freitas, Bárbara ; Friedman, Nicholas R. ; Froidevaux, Jérémy S. P. ; Gogoleva, Svetlana ; Gonzaga, Carolina ; Correa, José Miguel González ; Goodale, Eben ; Gottesman, Benjamin ; Grass, Ingo ; Greenhalgh, Jack ; Gregoire, Jocelyn ; Haché, Samuel ; Hagge, Jonas ; Halliday, William ; Hammer, Antonia ; Hanf‐Dressler, Tara ; Haupert, Sylvain ; Haver, Samara ; Heath, Becky ; Hending, Daniel ; Hernandez‐Blanco, Jose ; Higgs, Dennis ; Hiller, Thomas ; Huang, Joe Chun‐Chia ; Hutchinson, Katie Lois ; Hyacinthe, Carole ; Ieronymidou, Christina ; Iniunam, Iniunam A. ; Jackson, Janet ; Jacot, Alain ; Jahn, Olaf ; Juanes, Francis ; Kanes, K. S. Jasper ; Kenchington, Ellen ; Kepfer‐Rojas, Sebastian ; Kitzes, Justin ; Kusuminda, Tharaka ; Lehnardt, Yael ; Lei, Jialin ; Leitman, Paula ; León, José ; Li, Deng ; Lima‐Santos, Cicero Simão ; Lloyd, Kyle John ; Looby, Audrey ; López‐Baucells, Adrià ; López‐Bosch, David ; Louth‐Robins, Tristan ; Maeda, Tatiana ; Malige, Franck ; Mammides, Christos ; Marcacci, Gabriel ; Markolf, Matthias ; Marques, Marinez Isaac ; Martin, Charles W. ; Martin, Dominic A. ; Martin, Kathy ; McArthur, Ellen ; McKown, Matthew ; McLeod, Logan J. T. ; Médoc, Vincent ; Metcalf, Oliver ; Meyer, Christoph F. J. ; Mikusinski, Grzegorz ; Miller, Brian ; Monteiro, João ; Mooney, T. Aran ; Moreira, Sérgio ; Sugai, Larissa Sayuri Moreira ; Morris, Dave ; Müller, Sandra ; Muñoz‐Duque, Sebastian ; Murchy, Kelsie A. ; Nagelkerken, Ivan ; Mas, Maria ; Nouioua, Rym ; Ocampo‐Ariza, Carolina ; Olden, Julian D. ; Oppel, Steffen ; Osiecka, Anna N. ; Papale, Elena ; Parsons, Miles ; Pashkevich, Michael ; Patris, Julie ; Marques, João Pedro ; Pérez‐Granados, Cristian ; Piatti, Liliana ; Pichorim, Mauro ; Pine, Matthew K. ; Pinheiro, Thiago ; Pradervand, Jean‐Nicolas ; Quinn, John ; Quintella, Bernardo ; Radford, Craig ; Raick, Xavier ; Rainho, Ana ; Ramalho, Emiliano ; Ramesh, Vijay ; Rétaux, Sylvie ; Reynolds, Laura K. ; Riede, Klaus ; Rimmer, Talen ; Ríos, Noelia ; Rocha, Ricardo ; Rocha, Luciana ; Roe, Paul ; Ross, Samuel R. P.‐J. ; Rosten, Carolyn M. ; Ryan, John ; Salustio‐Gomes, Carlos ; Samarra, Filipa I. P. ; Samartzis, Philip ; Santos, José ; Sattler, Thomas ; Scharffenberg, Kevin ; Schoeman, Renée P. ; Schuchmann, Karl‐Ludwig ; Sebastián‐González, Esther ; Seibold, Sebastian ; Sethi, Sarab ; Shabangu, Fannie W. ; Shaw, Taylor ; Shen, Xiaoli ; Singer, David ; Širović, Ana ; Slater, Matthew ; Spriel, Brittnie ; Stanley, Jenni ; Sueur, Jérôme ; da Cunha Tavares, Valeria ; Thomisch, Karolin ; Thorn, Simon ; Tong, Jianfeng ; Torrent, Laura ; Traba, Juan ; Tremblay, Junior A. ; Trevelin, Leonardo ; Tseng, Sunny ; Tuanmu, Mao‐Ning ; Valverde, Marisol ; Vernasco, Ben ; Vieira, Manuel ; da Paz, Raiane Vital ; Ward, Matthew ; Watson, Maryann ; Weldy, Matthew J. ; Wiel, Julia ; Willie, Jacob ; Wood, Heather ; Xu, Jinshan ; Zhou, Wenyi ; Li, Songhai ; Sousa‐Lima, Renata ; Wanger, Thomas Cherico
• Date: 2025
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/101623
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto da ULisboa

Description

Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can track life underwater and on land. However, we lack a unified methodology to report this sampling effort and a comprehensive overview of PAM coverage to gauge its potential as a global research and monitoring tool. To address this gap, we created the Worldwide Soundscapes project, a collaborative network and growing database comprising metadata from 416 datasets across all realms (terrestrial, marine, freshwater and subterranean). Location Worldwide, 12,343 sites, all ecosystem types. Time Period 1991 to present. Major Taxa Studied All soniferous taxa. Methods We synthesise sampling coverage across spatial, temporal and ecological scales using metadata describing sampling locations, deployment schedules, focal taxa and audio recording parameters. We explore global trends in biological, anthropogenic and geophysical sounds based on 168 selected recordings from 12 ecosystems across all realms. Results Terrestrial sampling is spatially denser (46 sites per million square kilometre—Mkm2) than aquatic sampling (0.3 and 1.8 sites/Mkm2 in oceans and fresh water) with only two subterranean datasets. Although diel and lunar cycles are well sampled across realms, only marine datasets (55%) comprehensively sample all seasons. Across the 12 ecosystems selected for exploring global acoustic trends, biological sounds showed contrasting diel patterns across ecosystems, declined with distance from the Equator, and were negatively correlated with anthropogenic sounds. Main Conclusions PAM can inform macroecological studies as well as global conservation and phenology syntheses, but representation can be improved by expanding terrestrial taxonomic scope, sampling coverage in the high seas and subterranean ecosystems, and spatio-temporal replication in freshwater habitats. Overall, this worldwide PAM network holds promise to support cross-realm biodiversity research and monitoring efforts.