BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome
Abstract Most biodiversity data are collected at fine spatial scales, but threats to species and ecosystems occur at broad spatial scales. Remote sensing allows broad-scale assessment of biodiversity but these data need to be ground-truthed with contemporaneous in situ datasets. Various faunal group...
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| author | Andrew A. Turner Matthew L. Clark Leo Salas Colleen Seymour Rose L. Snyder Alan T. K. Lee Antonio Ferraz Fabian Schneider John Measey Johan Huisamen Daniël Cloete Sally D. Hofmeyr Christina Hagen David F. Leland Wendy Schackwitz Festus Adegbola Eugéne Hahndiek Grant S. Joseph Jacques Van Rooi Michelle Fuchs Saskia Thomas Simphiwe Madlala Jacky Spiby Patty Taljaard |
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| description | Abstract Most biodiversity data are collected at fine spatial scales, but threats to species and ecosystems occur at broad spatial scales. Remote sensing allows broad-scale assessment of biodiversity but these data need to be ground-truthed with contemporaneous in situ datasets. Various faunal groups produce sounds or vocalizations which can then be related to remotely-sensed data. As part of the NASA-led BioSCape project, the BioSoundSCape project deployed Autonomous Recording Units (ARUs), which record sounds in an approximately 50 m radius, at 521 sites spread across an area of approximately 119,058 km2 in the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa, during the wet and dry seasons of 2023. The ARUs recorded sounds one in every ten minutes, over 4–10 days, producing 825,832 minutes of recordings (approximately 400,000 minutes of recording in each season). These sound data are georeferenced to within 20 m, with time and date information, so may be useful for relating biodiversity patterns in soundscapes to vegetation structure, fire history, plant phenology, distance to roads and other human infrastructure. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5a2aecc5b2d84aee9a04fc86b6e026ab2025-08-20T03:42:19ZengNature PortfolioScientific Data2052-44632025-08-011211910.1038/s41597-025-05685-3BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos BiomeAndrew A. Turner0Matthew L. Clark1Leo Salas2Colleen Seymour3Rose L. Snyder4Alan T. K. Lee5Antonio Ferraz6Fabian Schneider7John Measey8Johan Huisamen9Daniël Cloete10Sally D. Hofmeyr11Christina Hagen12David F. Leland13Wendy Schackwitz14Festus Adegbola15Eugéne Hahndiek16Grant S. Joseph17Jacques Van Rooi18Michelle Fuchs19Saskia Thomas20Simphiwe Madlala21Jacky Spiby22Patty Taljaard23CapeNature, Private Bag X29Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis, Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning, Sonoma State UniversityPoint Blue Conservation ScienceSouth African National Biodiversity InstitutePoint Blue Conservation ScienceFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape TownNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyCentre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch UniversityBirdLife South AfricaBirdLife South AfricaFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape TownBirdLife South AfricaPoint Blue Conservation SciencePoint Blue Conservation ScienceState University of New York at BuffaloNuwejaars Wetlands Special Management AreaFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape TownCapeNature, Private Bag X29BirdLife South AfricaBirdLife South AfricaSouth African National Biodiversity InstituteBirdLife South AfricaBirdLife South AfricaAbstract Most biodiversity data are collected at fine spatial scales, but threats to species and ecosystems occur at broad spatial scales. Remote sensing allows broad-scale assessment of biodiversity but these data need to be ground-truthed with contemporaneous in situ datasets. Various faunal groups produce sounds or vocalizations which can then be related to remotely-sensed data. As part of the NASA-led BioSCape project, the BioSoundSCape project deployed Autonomous Recording Units (ARUs), which record sounds in an approximately 50 m radius, at 521 sites spread across an area of approximately 119,058 km2 in the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa, during the wet and dry seasons of 2023. The ARUs recorded sounds one in every ten minutes, over 4–10 days, producing 825,832 minutes of recordings (approximately 400,000 minutes of recording in each season). These sound data are georeferenced to within 20 m, with time and date information, so may be useful for relating biodiversity patterns in soundscapes to vegetation structure, fire history, plant phenology, distance to roads and other human infrastructure.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05685-3 |
| spellingShingle | Andrew A. Turner Matthew L. Clark Leo Salas Colleen Seymour Rose L. Snyder Alan T. K. Lee Antonio Ferraz Fabian Schneider John Measey Johan Huisamen Daniël Cloete Sally D. Hofmeyr Christina Hagen David F. Leland Wendy Schackwitz Festus Adegbola Eugéne Hahndiek Grant S. Joseph Jacques Van Rooi Michelle Fuchs Saskia Thomas Simphiwe Madlala Jacky Spiby Patty Taljaard BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome Scientific Data |
| title | BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome |
| title_full | BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome |
| title_fullStr | BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome |
| title_full_unstemmed | BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome |
| title_short | BioSoundSCape: A bioacoustic dataset for the Fynbos Biome |
| title_sort | biosoundscape a bioacoustic dataset for the fynbos biome |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05685-3 |
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