Acoustic diversity does not measure biological diversity in birds
Evidence
Acoustic diversity, expressed in terms of frequencies, became an important matter of investigation and of estimation of the complexity that we can expect in a speciļ¬c site or habitat. Acoustic diversity cannot be correlated with biological diversity, at least in birds (Gasc et al. 2013), but nevertheless a high acoustic diversity is associated with a speciļ¬c assemblage of species. ā Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 115
Categorization
- QUESTION: A claimed non-correlation that undercuts a common assumption ā central tension for acoustic-indices methodology.
- XREF: connects to: Autonomous recording advanced but automatic sound identification remains unsolved ā Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,ā¦, 113; Acoustic diversity mirrors species diversity only in tropical biomes. ā Bernie Krause and Almo Farina, Using Ecoacoustic Methods to Survey theā¦, 90