2023 Spring Seminar Series Presents
Dr. Zuzana Buřivalová
Assistant Professor
Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
WHEN: April 21, 2023, at Noon
WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom and in person in the North Classroom, Room 1207
Everyone is welcome to join the seminar, please email jacki.craig@ucdenver.edu to receive the Zoom link. Requests can be submitted any time before the seminar but not after 10:00am the day of the seminar.
What does a healthy rainforest sound like? Soundscapes as a tool to monitor biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Conservation and sustainable management projects need to be able to monitor their progress – or lack thereof – in a timely and rigorous way that is scalable: increasing biodiversity with forest regeneration in Indonesia should be possible to measure with the same indicator as in Myanmar. Soundscape monitoring can capture vocalizing diversity over time and across sites, and is being increasingly tested as a tool for conservation monitoring. A major obstacle towards this is the lack of knowledge of how natural and human modified soundscapes change across scales. In this talk, I will describe how soundscapes change between land use types, as well as with different intensities within land use types. I will introduce three soundscape analysis techniques, on examples of soundscapes from Myanmar, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.