Species relationships resist the automated monitoring that captures physical ecosystem processes

Evidence

Monitoring means to evaluate changes over time using a repeated standardized sampling procedure. Monitoring is particularly required to track the dramatic changes that modern human societies are producing at the planetary scale. In particular, ecosystem dynamics represent the focus of most monitoring programs, where cycling of water, cycling of nutrients, energy transfer, and species relationships are the four main processes to be considered. Despite the relative simplicity of using automated remote procedures and instruments to capture the parameter described in the first three processes, the last requires a more sophisticated approach. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 2227

Categorization

• XREF: Dovetails with the earlier claim that autonomous recording advanced but automatic sound identification remains unsolved — the species-relationships layer is exactly where automation still fails. — connects to: Dataism elevates algorithmic power above the older ecological view of life — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 605; Guided quiet tracking amid declining wildlife models attentive slow observation — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 266

Broader Connections

• Dataism elevates algorithmic power above the older ecological view of life #complicates (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 605