
Meet Generation Restoration: Ellie Dimambro-Denson
Our project partners are at the core of everything we do, with each team being made up of dedicated and…
March 17, 2023
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.
Our project partners are at the core of everything we do, with each team being made up of dedicated and…
March 17, 2023
Located in central-eastern Spain, the Iberian Highlands is among the seven new landscape scale restoration projects funded by the Endangered Landscapes Programme…
February 23, 2023
The Danube Delta is one of Europe’s largest and most important wetlands. Efforts by the Rewilding Ukraine team to restore…
February 10, 2023