Check out this new paper that Will led alongside his PhD supervisory team across Newcastle University, Fera Science Ltd and Nottingham Trent University!
Ecoacoustics can be used to monitor biodiversity across massive spatiotemporal scales, including in ecologically cryptic systems like soil, yet its application to the detection and characterisation of predator-prey interactions remains poorly developed. This perspectives article describes the various ways in which ecoacoustics can be used to detect these interactions, but also provide valuable context to existing interaction and community data. Through alignment of acoustic indices with the properties of ecological networks, ecoacoustics even has significant potential to inform network inference and scale up network construction for next-generation biomonitoring. This paper provides an important step toward the wider adoption and validation of these concepts and methods.
Massive congratulations to Will for completing this important work, and for publishing his first first-author paper! Give it a read and keep your eyes peeled for more from Will over the coming months and years! Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction
Foraging Ecology Research Group 