
How we are using our projects to advance and apply knowledge of landscape restoration
We are delighted to announce that the ELP is funding five new projects to Advance and Apply our Knowledge of…
January 12, 2022
Daniel Rosengren
A primary focus of landscape restoration is facilitating the recovery of biodiversity and ecological functioning, however, monitoring changes in biodiversity over extended time periods, geographical areas and in the context of other restoration projects is challenging. Low-cost methods, deliverable across different scales, are therefore necessary to properly assess the impacts of restoration projects on biodiversity.
Acoustic surveys are becoming increasingly popular for monitoring biodiversity due to the low-cost of deployment, lack of observer bias and the wide range of taxa they can survey. However, processing acoustic data manually by looking through spectrograms is prohibitively time-consuming and needs expert knowledge to identify species, which may be difficult to standarise and reproduce through the typical duration of landscape restoration monitoring.
The project will enhance the ability of acoustic monitoring to measure the effects of restoration on biodiversity, with broader implications for biodiversity monitoring in Europe. We will build on an existing platform to enable automated acoustic identification of bats, focal bird species and species of bush-crickets and small mammals across Europe, processing data from acoustic surveys across ELP projects to help assess the effects of restoration on these taxa.
Support acoustic sampling of restoration projects of ELP partners and analyse findings in a project-based and ELP-wide context.
We are delighted to announce that the ELP is funding five new projects to Advance and Apply our Knowledge of…
January 12, 2022
The final instalment of our landscape restoration and climate change mini-series is an interview with Megan Critchley who has been…
November 10, 2021
In the fourth of our landscape restoration and climate change mini-series, Matt Burnett, the Communications Coordinator for the Endangered Landscape…
November 8, 2021